Victorian Numbered Acts

PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION ACT 2008 (NO. 72 OF 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     Superseded references  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  
   26.     Consequential amendment to the Magistrates' Court Act 1989  
   27.     Consequential amendments to the Human Tissue Act 1982  
           ENDNOTES