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Prohibition of Human Cloning Act 2002
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C2005C00482 C02
16 January 2003
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11 June 2007
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title [see Note 1]
2 Commencement [see Note 1]
3 Object of Act
4 Operation of Act
5 Act to bind the Crown
6 External Territories
7 Schedule
8 Definitions
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Part 2—Prohibited practices
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Division 1—Human cloning
9 Offence—creating a human embryo clone
10 Offence—placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body of an animal
11 Offence—importing or exporting a human embryo clone
12 No defence that human embryo clone could not survive
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Division 2—Other prohibited practices
13 Offence—creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo
14 Offence—creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman
15 Offence—creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
16 Offence—developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days
17 Offence—using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo
18 Offence—heritable alterations to genome
19 Offence—collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman
20 Offence—creating a chimeric or hybrid embryo
21 Offence—placing of an embryo
22 Offence—importing, exporting or placing a prohibited embryo
23 Offence—commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos
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Part 3—Commonwealth/State arrangements
24 Operation of State laws
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Part 4—Review provision and regulations
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Division 1—Review of Act
25 Review of operation of Act
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Division 2—Regulations
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26 Regulations
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Schedule 1—Consequential amendment
Gene Technology Act 2000
Notes to the STYLEREF ShortT \* MERGEFORMAT Prohibition of Human Cloning Act 2002