New Zealand Acts

HUMAN ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2004 - SECT 3

3 Purposes

This Act has the following purposes:

a) to secure the benefits of assisted reproductive procedures, established procedures, and human reproductive research for individuals and for society in general by taking appropriate measures for the protection and promotion of the health, safety, dignity, and rights of all individuals, but particularly those of women and children, in the use of these procedures and research:

b) to prohibit unacceptable assisted reproductive procedures and unacceptable human reproductive research:

c) to prohibit certain commercial transactions relating to human reproduction:

d) to provide a robust and flexible framework for regulating and guiding the performance of assisted reproductive procedures and the conduct of human reproductive research:

e) to prohibit the performance of assisted reproductive procedures (other than established procedures) or the conduct of human reproductive research without the continuing approval of the ethics committee:

f) to establish a comprehensive information-keeping regime to ensure that people born from donated embryos or donated cells can find out about their genetic origins.