Victorian Current Acts

PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION ACT 2008

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purpose  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Definitions  
   4.      Act to bind the Crown  

   PART 2--PRACTICES THAT ARE COMPLETELY PROHIBITED

   5.      Offence—placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body of an animal  
   6.      Offence—importing or exporting a human embryo clone  
   7.      No defence that human embryo clone could not survive  
   8.      Offence—creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman  
   9.      Offence—creating or developing a human embryo by fertilisation that contains genetic material provided by more than 2 persons  
   10.     Offence—developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days  
   11.     Offence—heritable alterations to genome  
   12.     Offence—collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman  
   13.     Offence—creating a chimeric embryo  
   14.     Offence—developing a hybrid embryo  
   15.     Offence—placing of an embryo  
   16.     Offence—importing, exporting or placing a prohibited embryo  
   17.     Offence—commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos  

   PART 3--PRACTICES PROHIBITED UNLESS AUTHORISED BY A LICENCE

   18.     Offence—creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation or developing such an embryo  
   19.     Offence—creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons  
   20.     Offence—using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human foetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo  
   21.     Offence—creating a hybrid embryo  

   PART 4--GENERAL

   22.     Regulations  

   PART 5--TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS

   23.     Definitions  
   24.     Superseded references  
   25.     Continuing proceedings  
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