Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts(1) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally imports an embryo into the ACT knowing that, or reckless about whether, the embryo is a prohibited embryo.
Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally exports an embryo from the ACT knowing that, or reckless about whether, the embryo is a prohibited embryo.
Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.
(3) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally places an embryo in the body of a woman knowing that, or reckless about whether, the embryo is a prohibited embryo.
Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.
(4) In this section:
"human cell" includes a human embryonal cell, a human foetal cell, human sperm and a human egg.
"prohibited embryo" means—
(a) a human embryo created by a process other than the fertilisation of a human egg by human sperm; or
(b) a human embryo created outside the body of a woman, unless the intention of the person who created the embryo was to attempt to achieve pregnancy in a particular woman; or
(c) a human embryo containing genetic material provided by more than 2 people; or
(d) a human embryo that has been developing outside the body of a woman for a period of longer than 14 days, disregarding any period when development is suspended; or
(e) a human embryo created using precursor cells taken from a human embryo or foetus; or
(f) a human embryo containing a human cell whose genome has been altered in such a way that the alteration is heritable by human descendants of the human whose cell was altered; or
(g) a human embryo that was removed from the body of a woman by a person intending to collect a viable human embryo; or
(h) a chimeric embryo or a hybrid embryo.