Research Involving Human Embryos (New South Wales) Act 2003 (NSW)

Research Involving Human Embryos (New South Wales) Act 2003 No 21

An Act to apply the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 of the Commonwealth as a law of this State; and for other purposes.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act This Act is the Research Involving Human Embryos (New South Wales) Act 2003.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation.

3 Object of Act (1) The object of this Act is to adopt in this State a uniform Australian approach to the regulation of activities that involve the use of certain human embryos created by assisted reproductive technology or by other means. (2) For that purpose, this Act: (a) applies the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 of the Commonwealth as a law of this State, and (b) makes provision to ensure that the Commonwealth Act and the applied law of this State are administered on a uniform basis by the Commonwealth as if they constituted a single law of the Commonwealth.

4 Definitions (1) In this Act: applied provisions means the Commonwealth embryo laws that apply as a law of this State because of section 5, including any modification under section 6. Commonwealth administrative laws means the following Acts and regulations of the Commonwealth: (a) the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (excluding Part IVA), (b) the Freedom of Information Act 1982, (c) the Ombudsman Act 1976, (d) the Privacy Act 1988, (e) the regulations in force under any of those Acts. Commonwealth Embryo Act means the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 of the Commonwealth. Commonwealth embryo laws means: (a) the Commonwealth Embryo Act, and (b) all regulations in force under that Act. function includes duty. modification includes additions, omissions and substitutions. NHMRC Licensing Committee means the Embryo Research Licensing Committee of the NHMRC established under the Commonwealth Embryo Act. (2) If an expression is defined in the Commonwealth Embryo Act and is also used in this Act, the expression as used in this Act has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning as in that Act. (3) In this Act, a reference to a Commonwealth Act includes a reference to: (a) that Commonwealth Act, as amended and in force for the time being, and (b) an Act enacted in substitution for that Act and, if it is amended, as amended and in force for the time being.