South Australian Numbered Acts

STATUTES AMENDMENT (PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION AND REGULATION OF RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS) ACT 2009 (NO 11 OF 2009) - SECT 6

6—Amendment of section 3—Interpretation

        (1)         Section 3(1), definition of "human embryo"—delete the definition and substitute:

"human embryo" means a discrete entity that has arisen from either—

            (a)         the first mitotic division when fertilisation of a human oocyte by a human sperm is complete; or

            (b)         any other process that initiates organised development of a biological entity with a human nuclear genome or altered human nuclear genome that has the potential to develop up to, or beyond, the stage at which the primitive streak appears,

and has not yet reached  8 weeks of development since the first mitotic division;

        (2)         Section 3(1)—after the definition of "inspector" insert:

"licence" means a licence under Part 2 Division 3 of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2003 ;

        (3)         Section 3(1), definition of "related Commonwealth Act", (a)—after " Cloning " insert:

for Reproduction

        (4)         Section 3—after subsection (5) insert:

        (6)         A reference in this Act to an "embryo" (including a human embryo) is a reference to a living embryo.

        (7)         A reference in this Act to a "human egg" is a reference to a human oocyte.

        (8)         A reference in this Act to a "human embryo" does not include a reference to—

            (a)         a hybrid embryo; or

            (b)         a human embryonic stem cell line.