1Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2008

Version No. 003

Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2008

No. 72 of 2008

Version incorporating amendments as at
1 December 2013

table of provisions

Section Page

Part 1—Preliminary 1

1 Purpose 1

2 Commencement 1

3 Definitions 1

4 Act to bind the Crown 4

Part 2—Practices that are Completely
Prohibited 5

5 Offence—placing a human embryo clone in the human body
or the body of an animal 5

6 Offence—importing or exporting a human embryo clone 5

7 No defence that human embryo clone could not survive 5

8 Offence—creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman 5

9 Offence—creating or developing a human embryo by
fertilisation that contains genetic material provided by more
than 2 persons 6

10 Offence—developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days 6

11 Offence—heritable alterations to genome 7

12 Offence—collecting a viable human embryo from the body
of a woman 7

13 Offence—creating a chimeric embryo 7

14 Offence—developing a hybrid embryo 8

15 Offence—placing of an embryo 8

16 Offence—importing, exporting or placing a prohibited embryo 8

17 Offence—commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos 10

Part 3—Practices Prohibited Unless Authorised
by a Licence 12

18 Offence—creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation
or developing such an embryo 12

19 Offence—creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons 12

20 Offence—using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human foetus to create a human embryo, or developing such
an embryo 13

21 Offence—creating a hybrid embryo 13

Part 4—General 15

22 Regulations 15

Part 5—Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments to other Acts 16

Division 1—Transitional provisions 16

23 Definitions 16

24 Superseded references 16

25 Continuing proceedings 16

ENDNOTES 18

1. General Information 18