Reproductive Technology Act, 1988 (No. 10 of 1988) , 10 March 1988
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 52 356-63
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289595 Document Number: 380412
This document contains major provisions of the South Australia Reproductive Technology Act of 1988. The first provisions included define various terms relative to reproductive technologies. Part 2 outlines the organization of the South Australian Council on Reproductive Technology which is charged with, among other tasks, formulating and reviewing a code of ethical practice governing artificial fertilization procedures and research with human reproductive material. Such a code will hold paramount the welfare of any child born as a consequence of artificial fertilization and must contain provisions to ban "embryo flushing," to limit the storage of a human embryo to 10 years, and to forbid the in vitro cultivation of a human embryo beyond the stage of normal implantation. Part 3 covers licensing procedures and conditions governing artificial fertilization. Part 4 contains miscellaneous provisions allowing for unannounced inspections of facilities, the disclosure of confidential information, and the penalties for offenses against this Act.