South Australian Current Acts

PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION ACT 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Nationally consistent scheme

   PART 2--Prohibited practices

           Division 1--Practices that are completely prohibited

   5.      Offence--placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body of an animal
   6.      No defence that human embryo clone could not survive
   7.      Offence--creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman
   8.      Offence--creating or developing a human embryo by fertilisation that contains genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
   9.      Offence--developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days
   10.     Offence--heritable alterations to genome
   11.     Offence--collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman
   12.     Offence--creating a chimeric embryo
   13.     Offence--developing a hybrid embryo
   14.     Offence--placing of an embryo
   15.     Offence--importing, exporting or placing a prohibited embryo
   16.     Offence--commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos

           Division 2--Practices that are prohibited unless authorised by a licence

   17.     Offence--creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo
   18.     Offence--creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
   19.     Offence--using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo
   19A.    Offence--creating a hybrid embryo

   PART 3--Inspectors

   20.     Powers of inspectors
   21.     Announcement before entry
   22.     Inspector must produce identity card on request
   23.     Compensation for damage
   24.     Return of seized things
   25.     Related matters

   PART 4--Miscellaneous

   26.     Commonwealth/State arrangements
   27.     Delegations
   28.     False or misleading information
   30.     Evidential burden in relation to exceptions etc
   31.     Regulations
           SCHEDULE -Transitional provision
           Legislative history