animal includes every kind of organism in the animal kingdom, including non-vertebrates but not including human beings; characterised, in relation to nucleic acid, nucleic acid that has been sequenced and in respect of which there is an understanding of potential gene products or potential functions; code for, for Schedule 2, has the meaning given in Part 3 of that Schedule; Commonwealth Regulations means the Gene Technology Regulations 2001 of the Commonwealth; r. 3 expert adviser means— Part 4—an expert adviser appointed under section 102(1) of the Commonwealth Act; and Part 5—an expert adviser appointed under section 112(1) of the Commonwealth Act; genetically modified laboratory guinea pig means a laboratory strain of guinea pig of the species Cavia porcellus that has been modified by gene technology; genetically modified laboratory mouse means a laboratory strain of mouse of the species
Mus musculus that has been modified by gene technology; genetically modified laboratory rabbit means a laboratory strain of rabbit of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus that has been modified by gene technology; genetically modified laboratory rat means a laboratory strain of rat of either the species Rattus rattus or Rattus norvegicus that has been modified by gene technology; infectious agent means an agent that is capable of entering, surviving in, multiplying, and potentially causing disease in, a susceptible host; inspector means a person appointed by the Regulator under section 150 of the Act as an inspector; known means known within the scientific community; nonconjugative plasmid, for Schedule 2, has the meaning in Part 3 of that Schedule; r. 3 nonvector system, for Schedule 2, has the meaning given in Part 3 of that Schedule; nucleic acid means either, or both, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), or ribonucleic acid (RNA), of any length;
1 Bacteria Escherichia coli K12, E. coli B, E. coli C or E. coli Nissle 1917—any derivative that does not contain— (a) generalised transducing phages; or (b) genes able to complement the conjugation defect in a non-conjugative plasmid 1 Non-conjugative plasmids 2 Bacteriophage— (a) lambda (b) lambdoid (c) Fd or F1 (e.g. M13) 3 None (non-vector systems) Bacillus—specified species —asporogenic strains with a reversion frequency of less than 10–7— (a) B. amyloliquefaciens (b) B. licheniformis (c) B. pumilus (d) B. subtilis (e) B. thuringiensis 1 Non-conjugative plasmids 2 Plasmids and phages whose host range does not include B. cereus, B. anthracis or any other pathogenic strain of Bacillus 3 None (non-vector systems) Pseudomonas putida—strain KT 2440 1 Non-conjugative plasmids including certified plasmids: pKT 262, pKT 263, pKT 264 2 None (non-vector systems) Sch. 2
Item Host Vector Streptomyces—specified species— (a) S. aureofaciens (b) S. coelicolor (c) S. cyaneus (d) S. griseus (e) S. lividans (f) S. parvulus (g) S. rimosus (h) S. venezuelae 1 Non-conjugative plasmids 2 Certified plasmids: SCP2, SLP1, SLP2, PIJ101 and derivatives 3 Actinophage phi C31 and derivatives 4 None (non-vector systems) Agrobacterium radiobacter 1 Non-tumorigenic disarmed Ti plasmid vectors, or Ri plasmid vectors 2 None (non-vector systems) Agrobacterium strains Agrobacterium tumefaciens —disarmed strains Lactobacillus Lactococcus lactis 1 2 Oenococcus oeni syn. Leuconostoc oeni Pediococcus Photobacterium angustum Pseudoalteromonas tunicata Rhizobium (including the genus Allorhizobium)
4 Tissue culture Any of the following if they cannot spontaneously generate a whole animal— (a) animal or human cell cultures (including packaging cell lines); (b) isolated cells, isolated tissues or isolated organs, whether animal or human; (c) early non-human mammalian embryos cultured in vitro 1 Non-conjugative plasmids 2 Non-viral vectors, or replication defective viral vectors unable to transduce human cells 3 Baculovirus (Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus), polyhedrin minus 4 None (non-vector systems) Either of the following if they are not intended, and are not likely without human intervention, to vegetatively propagate, flower or regenerate into a whole plant— (a) plant cell cultures; (b) isolated plant tissues or organs 1 Non-tumorigenic disarmed Ti plasmid vectors, or Ri plasmid vectors, in Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Agrobacterium radiobacter or Agrobacterium rhizogenes 2 Non-pathogenic vectors 3 None (non-vector systems) Sch. 2 __________________