PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION ACT 2003
Table of Provisions
PART 1--Preliminary
PART 2--Prohibited practices
Division 1--Practices that are completely prohibited
- 5 Offence--placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body of an animal
- 6 No defence that human embryo clone could not survive
- 7 Offence--creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman
- 8 Offence--creating or developing a human embryo by fertilisation that contains genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
- 9 Offence--developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days
- 10 Offence--heritable alterations to genome
- 11 Offence--collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman
- 12 Offence--creating a chimeric embryo
- 13 Offence--developing a hybrid embryo
- 14 Offence--placing of an embryo
- 15 Offence--importing, exporting or placing a prohibited embryo
- 16 Offence--commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos
Division 2--Practices that are prohibited unless authorised by a licence
- 17 Offence--creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo
- 18 Offence--creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
- 19 Offence--using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo
- 19A Offence--creating a hybrid embryo
PART 3--Inspectors
- 20 Powers of inspectors
- 21 Announcement before entry
- 22 Inspector must produce identity card on request
- 23 Compensation for damage
- 24 Return of seized things
- 25 Related matters