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RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS ACT 2003 - SECT 29

29—Commonwealth/State arrangements

        (1)         The validity of any licence issued or thing done for the purposes of this Act is not affected only because it was issued or done also for the purposes of a related Commonwealth Act.

        (2)         The Chairperson of the NHMRC Licensing Committee may, after consultation with the Minister, appoint as an inspector under a related Commonwealth Act a person who is appointed or employed by the State.

        (3)         If—

            (a)         an act or omission is an offence against this Act and is also an offence against a related Commonwealth Act; and

            (b)         the offender has been punished for the offence under the related Commonwealth Act,

the offender is not liable to be punished for the offence under this Act.

        (4)         This Act does not purport to confer a function or power, or to impose a duty, on—

            (a)         the NHMRC Licensing Committee; or

            (b)         a Commonwealth authority; or

            (c)         an officer of the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority,

to the extent to which the conferral of the function or power, or the imposition of the duty, would be beyond the legislative power of the Parliament of the State.

        (5)         Subsection (4) does not limit the operation of section 22A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1915 .



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