HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1991 - SECT 53L
HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1991 - SECT 53L
53L . Offence — heritable alterations to genome
(1) A person commits a
crime 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.
Penalty: A fine of 600 penalty units or
imprisonment for 10 years or both.
Summary conviction penalty: A fine of 120 penalty
units or imprisonment for 2 years or both.
(2) In this section
—
human cell includes a human embryonal cell, a
human fetal cell, human sperm or a human egg.
[Section 53L inserted: No. 18 of 2004 s. 8.]