Queensland Consolidated Acts

RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN EMBRYOS AND PROHIBITION OF HUMAN CLONING FOR REPRODUCTION ACT 2003 - SECT 8

8 Offence—creating a human embryo for a purpose other than achieving pregnancy in a woman

(1) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally creates a human embryo by a process of the fertilisation of a human egg by a human sperm outside the body of a woman, unless the person’s intention in creating the embryo is to attempt to achieve pregnancy in a particular woman.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—15 years imprisonment.

(2) A defendant does not bear the burden of proving any matter in subsection (1) .