Meaning of human embryo clone
7 Meaning of human embryo clone
In this Act:
human embryo clone means a human embryo that is a genetic copy of another living or dead human, but does not include a human embryo created by the fertilisation of a human egg by human sperm.
To establish that a human embryo clone is a genetic copy of a living or dead human—
it is sufficient to establish that the set of genes in the nuclei of the cells of the living or dead human has been copied; and
it is not necessary to establish that the copy is an identical genetic copy.
A human embryo that results from the technological process known as embryo splitting is taken not to be created by a process of fertilisation of a human egg by human sperm.
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