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CurrentOffence—heritable alterations to genome
Part 2Prohibited practices
Division 2.1Practices that are completely prohibited
13 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.
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