10Offence—heritable alterations to genome

10 Offence—heritable alterations to genome

10 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 foetal cell, human sperm or a human egg.

pt 2, div 1 (ss 5–16): Subst 2007 No 16, Sch 1 [8].

ss 5–14: Subst 2007 No 16, Sch 1 [8].