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The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Bill 2021
No. , 2021
(Health)
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to human cloning and research involving human embryos, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Mitochondrial donation 3
Part 1—Main amendments 3
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002 3
Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 5
Research Involving Human Embryos Regulations 2017 33
Part 2—Other amendments 39
Freedom of Information Act 1982 39
Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction Act 2002 39
Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 41
Research Involving Human Embryos Regulations 2017 57
Therapeutic Goods (Excluded Goods) Determination 2018 58
Part 3—Application and transitional provisions 60
A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to human cloning and research involving human embryos, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Mitochondrial Donation Law Reform (Maeve’s Law) Act 2021 .
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table |
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. |
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A single day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Note: The provisions of a legislative instrument (the principal instrument ) amended or inserted by this Act, and any other provisions of the principal instrument, may be amended or repealed by a legislative instrument made under the enabling provision for the principal instrument (see subsection 13(5) of the Legislation Act 2003 ).