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HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1991 - SECT 53P

HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1991 - SECT 53P

53P .         Offence — importing, exporting or placing prohibited embryo

        (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; or

            (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; or

            (c)         a human embryo that contains genetic material provided by more than 2 persons; or

            (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; or

            (e)         a human embryo created using precursor cells taken from a human embryo or a human fetus; or

            (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; or

            (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: No. 18 of 2004 s. 8.]