Prohibition of Human Cloning Bill 2003 (Qld)

Queensland

PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING BILL 2003

Queensland

PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING BILL 2003

TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section PART 1—PRELIMINARY

1 Short title... eens 2 Commencement. ..... 0... eee eee eee 3 Object of Act... cee teens 4 Act binds all persons... 0... eee eee eee eee 5 Definitions... 0.0... eee eee eee eee eee eee 6 Meaning of "reckless"... 2.0.6... e eee eee eee

PART 2—PROHIBITED PRACTICES Division 1—Human cloning 7 Offence—creating a human embryo clone ...............- eee eee ee

8 Offence—placing a human embryo clone in the human body or the body ofan animal ..............0..000.0.00.0.0..000..00002020000.

9 No defence that human embryo clone could not survive .............-. Division 2—Other prohibited practices

10 Offence—creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo... 1.2... eee eee eee ee

11 Offence—creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman....... 0.2... eee eee eee

12 Offence—creating or developing a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 persons ...............0000000000.

13 Offence—developing a human embryo outside the body of a woman for more than 14 days ...... 0... eee ee

14 Offence—using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human fetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo .........

15 Offence—heritable alterations to genome............ 6.00. e eee eee

An hk ff PP HR HL Prohibition of Human Cloning Bill 2003 1719 4l4B454751 57 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

Offence—commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or humanembryos eee eee eee