{"id":"F2013L02043","name":"Declaration of 'corresponding State laws'","slug":"declaration-of-corresponding-state-laws","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":128215,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2013L02043-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Declaration of 'corresponding State laws'","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\ntitle: Normal.dot\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nCOMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA\n\n \n\nResearch Involving Human Embryos Act 2002\n\n \n\nSubsection 7(1)\n\n \n\nDeclaration of ‘corresponding State laws’\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nI, MARK BUTLER, Parliamentary Secretary for Health, hereby declare, for the purposes of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002, the Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2003 (South Australia) and the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2003 (South Australia), as amended by the Statutes Amendment (Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and Regulation of Research Involving Human Embryos) Act 2009 (South Australia) (No 11 of 2009), to be corresponding State laws.\n\n \n\n \n\nDated 3 November 2009\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nMARK BUTLER\n\nParliamentary Secretary for Health\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2865},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This declaration operates exactly as intended under section 7(1) of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002. It simply exercises the Minister's power to recognise State legislation that corresponds to the federal scheme, without expanding beyond the original purpose of the enabling provision."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative paragraph with no internal definitions or conditional logic","Cross-references to three external South Australian statutes","Legal effect depends entirely on external statutory framework (section 7 of the Commonwealth Act)","No exceptions, exclusions, or nested provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"The Commonwealth formally declares South Australia’s Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2003 and Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2003 (as amended) to be “corresponding State laws” under the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002. \n\nThat recognition means those State laws now operate in place of the federal Act in South Australia, shifting regulatory oversight to State authorities for researchers and institutions working with human embryos while preserving the nationally aligned ethical standards."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/declaration-of-corresponding-state-laws","history":"/api/acts/declaration-of-corresponding-state-laws/history","analysis":"/api/acts/declaration-of-corresponding-state-laws/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/declaration-of-corresponding-state-laws/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/declaration-of-corresponding-state-laws/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/declaration-of-corresponding-state-laws/documents"}}