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Medicines Act 1981

Restrictions on specified biotechnical procedures

96A: Interpretation

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In this part of the law, you need to know what some words mean. Biological material is the whole or part of any organ, bone, tissue, or cell, or blood or body fluids. A specified biotechnical procedure is any xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation is a medical procedure that involves putting living biological material from an animal into a human being. It also includes giving a human being blood or fluid that has been in contact with living biological material from an animal. You should understand that these words have specific meanings in this law.

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Part 7ARestrictions on specified biotechnical procedures

96AInterpretation

  1. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

    biological material means—

    1. the whole or part of any organ, bone, tissue, or cell; or
      1. blood or body fluids

        specified biotechnical procedure means any xenotransplantation

          xenotransplantation—

          1. means a medical procedure that involves the insertion or injection into a human being of any matter that consists of, or includes, living biological material of an animal, whether or not that biological material also includes biological material of a human being; and
            1. includes the transfusion into a human being of any human blood or any human body fluid if the blood or the fluid has, as part of a biotechnical procedure, been in contact with living biological material of an animal.

            Notes
            • Section 96A: inserted, on , by section 6 of the Medicines (Restricted Biotechnical Procedures) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 14).
            • Section 96A cloned human organism: repealed, on , by section 86(1) of the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004 (2004 No 92).
            • Section 96A cloning procedure: repealed, on , by section 86(1) of the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004 (2004 No 92).
            • Section 96A genetically modified embryo: repealed, on , by section 86(1) of the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004 (2004 No 92).
            • Section 96A genetically modified gamete: repealed, on , by section 86(1) of the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004 (2004 No 92).
            • Section 96A germ-cell genetic procedure: repealed, on , by section 86(1) of the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004 (2004 No 92).
            • Section 96A specified biotechnical procedure: substituted, on , by section 86(2) of the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004 (2004 No 92).