Research Involving Human Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Bill 2003 (Qld)

Queensland

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS AND PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING BILL 2003

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Queensland

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN

EMBRYOS AND PROHIBITION OF

HUMAN CLONING BILL 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS PART 1—PRELIMINARY Short title... eens Commencement. .... 0.6.0... cece eee eee Object of Act... eee eee eee eee Act binds all persons... 0... eee eee eee eee Definitions... 0.0... eee eee eee eee eee eee Meaning of "reckless"... 0... eee eee eee

PART 2—PROHIBITED PRACTICES

Division 1—Human cloning

Offence—creating a human embryo clone .................0 00000008

Offence—placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the

body ofan animal ..............0..000.0.00.0.0..000..00002020000.

No defence that human embryo clone could not survive ...............

Division 2—Other prohibited practices

Offence—creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or

developing such an embryo... 1.2... eee eee eee ee

Offence—creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving

pregnancy ina WomaN..... 6... eee eens

Offence—creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic

material provided by more than 2 persons ...............0000000000.

Offence—developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman

for more than 14 days ...... 0... eee ee

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Research Involving Human Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning Bill 2003 161820 22 2427 29313335 Offence—using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo..............

Offence—heritable alterations to genome. ........... 0.0... Offence—collecting a viable human embryo from the body of a woman .. Offence—creating a chimeric or hybrid embryo. ..................0.. Offence—placing of an embryo ........... 0... eee eee eee Offence—placing a prohibited embryo............. 0.0.0.0 eee ee eee