Western Australian Consolidated Acts

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 by No. 18 of 2004 s. 8.]