Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00295:section:8:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00295
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 7059–9671

8  Definitions
 (1) In this Act:
animal does not include a human.
chimeric embryo means:
 (a) a human embryo into which a cell, or any component part of a cell, of an animal has been introduced; or
 (b) a thing declared by the regulations to be a chimeric embryo.
Commonwealth authority means the following:
 (a) a body corporate established for a public purpose by or under an Act;
 (b) a company in which a controlling interest is held by any one of the following persons, or by 2 or more of the following persons together:
 (i) the Commonwealth;
 (ii) a body covered by paragraph (a);
 (iii) a body covered by either of the above subparagraphs.
excess ART embryo means a human embryo that:
 (a) was created, by assisted reproductive technology, for use in the assisted reproductive technology treatment of a woman; and
 (b) is excess to the needs of:
 (i) the woman for whom it was created; and
 (ii) her spouse (if any) at the time the embryo was created.
general licence has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002.
human embryo means a discrete entity that has arisen from either:
 (a) the first mitotic division when fertilisation of a human oocyte by a human sperm is complete; or
 (b) any other process that initiates organised development of a biological entity with a human nuclear genome or altered human nuclear genome that has the potential to develop up to, or beyond, the stage at which the primitive streak appears;
and has not yet reached 8 weeks of development since the first mitotic division.
human embryo clone means a human embryo that is a genetic copy of another living or dead human, but does not include a human embryo created by the fertilisation of a human egg by human sperm.
human sperm includes human spermatids.
hybrid embryo means:
 (a) an embryo created by the fertilisation of a human egg by animal sperm; or
 (b) an embryo created by the fertilisation of an animal egg by human sperm; or
 (c) a human egg into which the nucleus of an animal cell has been introduced; or
 (d) an animal egg into which the nucleus of a human cell has been introduced; or
 (e) a thing declared by the regulations to be a hybrid embryo.
mitochondrial donation licence means any of the following licences issued under section 28J of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002:
 (a) a pre‑clinical research and training licence;
 (b) a clinical trial research and training licence;
 (c) a clinical trial licence;
 (d) a clinical practice research and training licence;
 (e) a clinical practice licence.
mitochondrial donation technique has the same meaning