Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

HUMAN CLONING AND EMBRYO RESEARCH ACT 2004 - SECT 13

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person alters the genome of a human cell in such a way that the alteration is heritable by descendants of the human whose cell was altered; and

        (b)     in altering the genome, the person intended the alteration to be heritable by descendants of the human whose cell was altered.

Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 15 years.

    (2)     In this section:

"human cell" includes a human embryonal cell, a human foetal cell, human sperm or a human egg.