Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS ACT 2002 - SECT 48

  (1)   The Governor - General may make regulations prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

  (2)   Before the Governor - General makes regulations under this Act, the Minister must be satisfied that:

  (a)   the States have been consulted in relation to the proposed regulations; and

  (b)   the proposed regulations have been prepared having regard to views expressed by the States in those consultations.

  (3)   Despite subsection   14(2) of the Legislation Act 2003 , regulations made for the purposes of the following provisions of this Act may make provision in relation to a matter by applying, adopting or incorporating, with or without modification, any matter contained in guidelines issued by the CEO of the NHMRC under the National Health and Medical Research Council Act 1992 as in force or existing from time to time:

  (a)   Division   4 (general licences) of Part   2;

  (b)   Division   4A (mitochondrial donation licences) of Part   2;

  (c)   a definition in section   7 or 8 of an expression that is used in either or both of those Divisions.