2019-2020-2021

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021

 

 

(Mr KJ Andrews)

(1)     Schedule 1, item 17, page 16 (after line 12), at the end of Subdivision A of Division 4A, add:

28GA  Sex selection not authorised

                   Despite anything else in this Subdivision, a mitochondrial donation licence does not authorise any activity designed to ensure that any child born as a result of the activity will be of one sex rather than the other.

[prohibiting sex selection]

(2)     Schedule 1, page 6 (after line 36), after item 10, insert:

10A  At the end of Division 1 of Part 2

Add:

9A  Minimum data required before clinical practice stage

                   Before the Governor-General makes regulations declaring a mitochondrial donation technique for the purposes of the definition of permitted technique in section 8, the Minister must be satisfied that there is sufficient clinical evidence that the technique has been used on 5 trial participants.

[permitted techniques]

(3)     Schedule 1, item 17, page 26 (line 10), omit “technique;”, substitute “technique.”.

[other conditions of clinical trial licences and clinical practice licences]

(4)     Schedule 1, item 17, page 26 (lines 11 to 17), omit paragraph 28Q(1)(d).

[other conditions of clinical trial licences and clinical practice licences]

(5)     Schedule 1, item 17, page 26 (line 20), omit “or (d)”.

[other conditions of clinical trial licences and clinical practice licences]

(6)     Schedule 1, item 17, page 32 (after line 11), at the end of Division 4A, add:

Subdivision G—Other requirements relating to mitochondrial donation licences

28Y  Annual reports

             (1)  The NHMRC Licensing Committee must, within 1 month after the end of each reporting period, give the Minister a report in accordance with subsection (2).

             (2)  The report must include, in a de-identified manner, the following information in relation to the reporting period:

                     (a)  the number and type of each licence issued pursuant to this Act;

                     (b)  the outcome of each technique undertaken.

             (3)  The Minister must cause a copy of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 28 sitting days of that House after the report is given to the Minister.

             (4)  For the purposes of this section, each of the following periods is a reporting period :

                     (a)  the period of 12 months beginning on the day this section commences;

                     (b)  each subsequent period of 12 months.

[annual reports]

(7)     Schedule 1, item 19, page 34 (line 4), omit the definition of pronuclear transfer .

[removal of pronuclear transfer]

(8)     Schedule 1, item 19, page 34 (line 5), omit the definition of second polar body transfer .

[removal of second polar body transfer]

(9)     Schedule 1, item 20, page 34 (line 15), omit paragraph 7A(b).

[removal of pronuclear transfer]

(10)   Schedule 1, item 20, page 34 (line 17), omit “transfer;”, substitute “transfer.”.

[removal of second polar body transfer]

(11)   Schedule 1, item 20, page 34 (line 18), omit paragraph 7A(e).

[removal of second polar body transfer]

(12)   Schedule 1, item 20, page 35 (cell at table item 1, column headed “the permitted techniques are …”, paragraph (b)), omit the paragraph.

[removal of pronuclear transfer]

(13)   Schedule 1, item 20, page 35 (cell at table item 1, column headed “the permitted techniques are …”, paragraph (e)), omit the paragraph.

[removal of second polar body transfer]

(14)   Schedule 1, item 20, page 35 (cell at table item 2, column headed “the permitted techniques are …”         ), omit the cell, substitute:

maternal spindle transfer

[removal of pronuclear transfer]

(15)   Schedule 1, item 20, page 35 (line 14) to page 36 (line 4), omit section 7D.

[removal of pronuclear transfer]

(16)   Schedule 1, item 20, page 36 (line 29) to page 37 (line 8), omit section 7G.

[removal of second polar body transfer]