Victorian Numbered Acts

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS ACT 2008 (NO. 74 OF 2008) - SECT 23

    (1)         The NHMRC Licensing Committee must maintain a database containing the following information in relation to each licence (including a licence as varied)—

        (a)     the name of the person to whom the licence was issued;

        (b)     a short statement about the nature of the uses of excess ART embryos or human eggs, and creations or uses of any other embryos, that are authorised by the licence;

        (c)     any conditions to which the licence is subject;

        (d)     the number of excess ART embryos or human eggs authorised to be used under the licence, or the number of other embryos authorised to be created or used under the licence;

        (e)     the date on which the licence was issued;

        (f)     the period throughout which the licence is to remain in force.

    (2)     The database is to be made publicly available.

    (3)     The database may be kept and made publicly available in electronic form.

    (4)     Information mentioned in subsection (1) must not be such as to disclose confidential commercial information.