8Definitions

8 Definitions

(1) In this Act:

animal does not include a human.

chimeric embryo means:

(a) a human embryo into which a cell, or any component part of a cell, of an animal has been introduced; or
(b) a thing declared by the regulations to be a chimeric embryo.

Commonwealth authority means the following:

(a) a body corporate established for a public purpose by or under an Act;
(b) a company in which a controlling interest is held by any one of the following persons, or by 2 or more of the following persons together:
(i) the Commonwealth;
(ii) a body covered by paragraph (a);
(iii) a body covered by either of the above subparagraphs.

excess ART embryo means a human embryo that:

(a) was created, by assisted reproductive technology, for use in the assisted reproductive technology treatment of a woman; and
(b) is excess to the needs of:
(i) the woman for whom it was created; and
(ii) her spouse (if any) at the time the embryo was created.

general licence has the same meaning as in Part 2 of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002.

human embryo means a discrete entity that has arisen from either:

(a) the first mitotic division when fertilisation of a human oocyte by a human sperm is complete; or
(b) any other process that initiates organised development of a biological entity with a human nuclear genome or altered human nuclear genome that has the potential to develop up to, or beyond, the stage at which the primitive streak appears;

and has not yet reached 8 weeks of development since the first mitotic division.

human embryo clone means a human embryo that is a genetic copy of another living or dead human, but does not include a human embryo created by the fertilisation of a human egg by human sperm.

human sperm includes human spermatids.

hybrid embryo means:

(a) an embryo created by the fertilisation of a human egg by animal sperm; or
(b) an embryo created by the fertilisation of an animal egg by human sperm; or
(c) a human egg into which the nucleus of an animal cell has been introduced; or
(d) an animal egg into which the nucleus of a human cell has been introduced; or
(e) a thing declared by the regulations to be a hybrid embryo.