Long title

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act

2 Commencement

3 Object of Act

4 Definitions

Part 2 Prohibited practices

Division 1 Practices that are completely prohibited

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

6 No defence that human embryo clone could not survive

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

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

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

10 Offence—heritable alterations to genome

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

12 Offence—creating a chimeric embryo

13 Offence—developing a hybrid embryo

14 Offence—placing of an embryo

15 Offence—placing a prohibited embryo

16 Offence—commercial trading in human eggs, human sperm or human embryos

Division 2 Practices that are prohibited unless authorised by a licence

17 Offence—creating a human embryo other than by fertilisation, or developing such an embryo

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

18A Offence—using precursor cells from a human embryo or a human foetus to create a human embryo, or developing such an embryo

18B Offence—developing a hybrid embryo

Part 3 Miscellaneous

19 Review of Act

19A Further review of Act

20 Regulations

Historical notes