GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 49 Division does not apply to an application relating to inadvertent dealings

GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 49

    Despite section   48, this Division does not apply to an application for a GMO licence if the Regulator is satisfied that:

  (a)   the dealings proposed to be authorised by the licence are limited to one or more of the following for purposes relating to disposing of a GMO:

  (i)   conducting experiments with the GMO;

  (ii)   propagating the GMO;

  (iii)   growing, raising or culturing the GMO;

  (iv)   transporting the GMO;

  (v)   any other dealings to be undertaken for the purposes of, or for purposes relating to, disposing of the GMO; and

  (b)   the applicant for the licence came into possession of the GMO inadvertently.