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Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002

No. 144, 2002

Compilation No. 7

Compilation date: 1 October 2022

Includes amendments up to: Act No. 26, 2022

Registered: 12 October 2022

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 1 October 2022 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

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Contents
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
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