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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002
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C2022C00295 (C07)
01 October 2022
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Object of Act
4 Operation of Act
5 Act to bind the Crown
6 External Territories
8 Definitions
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Part 2—Prohibited practices
9 Offence—placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body of an animal
10 Offence—importing or exporting a human embryo clone
11 No defence that human embryo clone could not survive
12 Offence—creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman or the purposes of a mitochondrial donation licence
13 Offence—creating or developing a human embryo by fertilisation that contains genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
14 Offence—developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days
15 Offence—heritable alterations to genome
16 Offence—collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman
17 Offence—creating a chimeric embryo
18 Offence—developing a hybrid embryo
19 Offence—placing of an embryo
20 Offence—importing, exporting or placing a prohibited embryo
21 Offence—commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos
22 Offence—creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo
23 Offence—creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
23A Offence—using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo
23B Offence—creating a hybrid embryo
23BA Person not liable for conduct purportedly authorised
23C Regulations under Customs Act
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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 every 7 years
Division 2—Regulations
26 Regulations
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Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history