Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

HUMAN CLONING (PROHIBITION) ACT 2004 (NO. 21 OF 2004)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Dictionary  
   4.      Notes  
   5.      Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  
   6.      Object of Act  
   7.      Meaning of human embryo  
   8.      Meaning of human embryo clone  

   PART 2--PROHIBITED PRACTICES

           Division 2.1--Human cloning

   9.      Offence—creating human embryo clone  
   10.     Offence—placing human embryo clone in body of human or animal  
   11.     Offence—importing or exporting human embryo clone  
   12.     No defence that human embryo clone could not survive  

           Division 2.2--Other prohibited practices

   13.     Offence—creating human embryo otherwise than by fertilisation etc  
   14.     Offence—creating human embryo for purpose other than achieving pregnancy  
   15.     Offence—creating etc human embryo containing genetic material from more than 2  
   16.     Offence—developing human embryo outside body of woman for longer than 14 days  
   17.     Offence—using precursor cells to create human embryo etc  
   18.     Offence—heritable alterations to genome  
   19.     Offence—collecting viable human embryo from woman's body  
   20.     Offence—creating chimeric or hybrid embryo  
   21.     Offence—placing of embryo  
   22.     Offence—importing, exporting or placing prohibited embryo  
   23.     Offence—commercial trading in human eggs etc  

   PART 3--MISCELLANEOUS

   24.     Review of operation of Act  
   25.     Regulation-making power  
           DICTIONARY
           ENDNOTES