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Gene Technology Regulations 2001
Sch 1Organisms that are not genetically modified organisms
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Schedule 1—Organisms that are not genetically modified organisms
(regulation 5)
| Item | Description of organism |
| ---- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 2 | A whole animal, or a human being, modified by the introduction of naked recombinant nucleic acid (such as a DNA vaccine) into its somatic cells, if the introduced nucleic acid is incapable of giving rise to infectious agents. |
| 3 | Naked plasmid DNA that is incapable of giving rise to infectious agents when introduced into a host cell. |
| 4 | An organism modified by repair of single‑strand or double‑strand breaks of genomic DNA induced by a site‑directed nuclease, if a nucleic acid template was not added to guide homology‑directed repair. |
| 6 | A micro‑organism that results from an exchange of DNA if:(a) the donor species is also the host species; and(b) the exchanged DNA does not contain any heterologous DNA. |
| 7 | An organism that results from an exchange of DNA between the donor species and the host species if:(a) such exchange can occur by naturally occurring processes; and(b) the donor species and the host species are micro‑organisms that:(i) satisfy the criteria in AS/NZS 2243.3:2010 for classification as Risk Group 1; and(ii) are known to exchange nucleic acid by a natural physiological process; and(c) the vector used in the exchange does not contain heterologous DNA from any organism other than an organism that is involved in the exchange. |
| 8 | An organism that is descended from a genetically modified organism (the initial organism), if none of the traits it has inherited from the initial organism are traits that occurred in the initial organism because of gene technology. |
| 9 | An organism that has inherited particular traits from an organism (the initial organism), being traits that occurred in the initial organism because of gene technology, if:(a) the initial organism was not a genetically modified organism (because of the application of regulation 5); or(b) all such inherited traits are traits that occurred in the initial organism as a result of a modification described in an item in this Schedule. |
| 10 | An organism that was modified by gene technology but in which the modification, and any traits that occurred because of gene technology, are either no longer present or are epigenetic. |
| 11 | Agrobacterium radiobacter strain K1026. |
| 12 | Pasteurella multocida strain PMP1. |