Tasmanian Numbered Acts

HUMAN CLONING AND OTHER PROHIBITED PRACTICES ACT 2003 (NO. 51 OF 2003) - Act 51 of 2003 - Royal Assent 25 September 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Object of Act
   4.      Interpretation

   PART 2 - Prohibited practices

           Division 1 - Human cloning

   5.      Offence – creating a human embryo clone
   6.      Offence – placing a human embryo clone in a human body or the body of an animal
   7.      Offence – importing and exporting human embryo clone
   8.      No defence that human embryo clone could not survive

           Division 2 - Other prohibited practices

   9.      Offence – creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo
   10.     Offence – creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman
   11.     Offence – creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons
   12.     Offence – developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days
   13.     Offence – using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo
   14.     Offence – heritable alterations to genome
   15.     Offence – collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman
   16.     Offence – creating a chimeric or hybrid embryo
   17.     Offence – placing of an embryo
   18.     Offence – placing a prohibited embryo
   19.     Offence – importing and exporting prohibited embryo
   20.     Offence – commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos

   PART 3 - Miscellaneous

   21.     Regulations
   22.     Review of Act
   23.     Administration of Act
   24.     Gene Technology Act 2001 amended