Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991
Part 4AProhibited practices
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Part 4A — Prohibited practices
Division 1 — General
53A. Object of this Part 96
53B. Terms used 96
Division 2 — Human cloning
53C. Offence — creating human embryo clone 98
53D. Offence — placing human embryo clone in human body or body of an animal 98
53E. Offence — importing or exporting human embryo clone 98
53F. No defence that human embryo clone could not survive 99
Division 3 — Other prohibited practices
53G. Offence — creating human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo 99
53H. Offence — creating human embryo for purpose other than achieving pregnancy in woman 99
53I. Offence — creating or developing human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons 100
53J. Offence — developing human embryo outside body of woman for more than 14 days 100
53K. Offence — using precursor cells from human embryo or human fetus to create human embryo, or developing such an embryo 100
53L. Offence — heritable alterations to genome 101
53M. Offence — collecting viable human embryo from body of woman 101
53N. Offence — creating chimeric or hybrid embryo 102
53O. Offence — placing of an embryo 102
53P. Offence — importing, exporting or placing prohibited embryo 103
53Q. Offence — commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos 104
Division 4 — Review of Part
53R. Review of Part 105