Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS ACT 2002 - SECT 19

  (1)   The NHMRC Licensing Committee may at any time cause a report about matters relating to the Committee's functions to be tabled in either House of the Parliament.

  (2)   The NHMRC Licensing Committee must give a copy of the report to the Minister and to each State.

  (3)   The NHMRC Licensing Committee must cause a report to be tabled in either House of Parliament on or before:

  (a)   30   June of each year; and

  (b)   31   December of each year; and

  (c)   any other time required by either House of Parliament;

that must include information about:

  (d)   the operation of this Act; and

  (e)   the general licences and mitochondrial donation licences issued under this Act.

  (4)   A report under this section must not include information about any of the following matters unless the NHMRC Licensing Committee considers that the information does not identify, and is not reasonably capable of being used to identify, any person:

  (a)   approvals under subsection   28P(3) (including applications for such approvals and the outcomes of those applications);

  (b)   births of children as a result of pregnancies achieved using a mitochondrial donation technique under a clinical trial licence or a clinical practice licence;

  (c)   adverse events notified to the NHMRC Licensing Committee under paragraph   28S(3)(a).