Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current ActsS. 27(1) amended by No. 65/2007 s. 98.
(1) A person must not—
(a) carry out a scientific procedure or a program of scientific procedures; or
(b) cause or allow a scientific procedure or program of scientific procedures to be carried out on that person's behalf—
at any place that is not a scientific premises unless the person is—
(c) the holder of a scientific procedures field work licence; or
(d) the holder of a scientific procedures premises licence that authorises the carrying out of that work.
Penalty: 120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, in the case of a natural person.
600 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.
S. 27(1A) inserted by No. 60/2015 s. 29.
(1A) A person who holds a scientific procedures field work licence must not—
(a) carry out a scientific procedure or a program of scientific procedures; or
(b) cause or allow another to carry out a scientific procedure or a program of scientific procedures on that person's behalf—
at any place that is not a scientific premises unless the person nominates a natural person to be responsible for any procedures carried out under the licence.
Penalty: 120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, in the case of a natural person.
600 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.
S. 27(1B) inserted by No. 60/2015 s. 29.
(1B) A person nominated under subsection (1A) ( nominee ) must not carry out any scientific procedure or program of scientific procedures or cause or allow any scientific procedure or program of scientific procedures to be carried out at a place that is not a scientific premises unless the nominee reasonably believes the person who nominated the nominee holds a scientific procedures field work licence that authorises the nominating person to—
(a) carry out the scientific procedure or program of scientific procedures at that place; or
(b) cause or allow the scientific procedure or program of scientific procedures to be carried out at that place.
Penalty: 120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
S. 27(2) amended by No. 65/2007 s. 98.
(2) A person must not—
(a) carry out a scientific procedure or a program of scientific procedures; or
(b) allow a scientific procedure or program of scientific procedures to be carried out—
on another person's behalf at any place that is not a scientific premises unless the person who so carries out or allows procedures to be carried out reasonably believes that the person on whose behalf the procedure or program is being carried out is—
(c) the holder of a scientific procedures field work licence; or
(d) the holder of a scientific procedures premises licence that authorises the carrying out of the procedure or program.
Penalty: 120 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, in the case of a natural person.
600 penalty units, in the case of a body corporate.
S. 28 amended by Nos 77/1995 s. 28, 76/1998 s. 27(b), substituted by No. 103/2003 s. 37.