Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2006A00172:clause:1_15
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2006A00172
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 15
Character Range: 7276–7806

15  Offence—heritable alterations to genome

 (1) A person commits an offence 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.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 15 years.

 (2) In this section:

human cell includes a human embryonal cell, a human fetal cell, human sperm or a human egg.