Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024
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SCHEDULE 4 Criteria that AHRRA shall have Regard to in Determining Licence Application to Undertake ESC Research | ||
1. Whether the applicant is a fit and proper person to be granted a licence to undertake the ESC research concerned, both at the time the licence application is made and at the time that the application is determined by the AHRRA. | ||
2. Whether the applicant is tax compliant, both at the time that the licence application is made and at the time that the application is determined by the AHRRA. | ||
3. Whether the ESC research concerned is likely to advance— | ||
(a) knowledge, treatments or other procedures relating to AHR, or | ||
(b) knowledge or treatment of serious diseases or other serious medical conditions. | ||
4. Whether the aims of the ESC research referred to in paragraph 3 could not reasonably be achieved through alternative forms of research that do not require the use of, as the case may be— | ||
(a) embryos, | ||
(b) embryonic stem cells or stem cell lines, or | ||
(c) induced pluripotent stem cells or stem cell lines. | ||
5. Whether or not the ESC research concerned has been assessed and approved by a research ethics committee. | ||
6. Whether the applicant has, or has available, the requisite skills and experience to undertake the ESC research the subject of the licence application. | ||
7. Whether the premises specified in the licence application at which it is proposed to undertake the ESC research the subject of the application are suitable for such undertaking. | ||
8. Any additional criteria specified, for the purpose of this paragraph, in regulations made under section 154 (2). |