Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) A person commits a
crime if the person imports a prohibited embryo into the State from a place
outside Australia.
(2) A person commits a
crime if the person exports a prohibited embryo from the State to a place
outside Australia.
(3) A person commits a
crime if the person places a prohibited embryo in the body of a woman.
(4) A person who
commits an offence against this section is liable to 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.
(5) In this
section —
prohibited embryo means —
(a) a
human embryo created by a process other than the fertilisation of a human egg
by human sperm;
(b) a
human embryo created outside the body of a woman, unless the intention of the
person who created the embryo was to attempt to achieve pregnancy in a
particular woman;
(c) a
human embryo that contains genetic material provided by more than 2 persons;
(d) a
human embryo that has been developing outside the body of a woman for a period
of more than 14 days, excluding any period when development is suspended;
(e) a
human embryo created using precursor cells taken from a human embryo or a
human fetus;
(f) a
human embryo that contains a human cell (as defined in section 53L(2))
whose genome has been altered in such a way that the alteration is heritable
by human descendants of the human whose cell was altered;
(g) a
human embryo that was removed from the body of a woman by a person intending
to collect a viable human embryo; or
(h) a
chimeric embryo or a hybrid embryo.
[Section 53P inserted by No. 18 of 2004
s. 8.]