Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally creates a hybrid embryo.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally develops a hybrid embryo.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
(3) A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1) or (2) if the creation or development of the hybrid embryo by the person is authorised by a general licence.
Note: A general licence to create or develop a hybrid embryo can only be issued under section 21 of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 :
(a) for the purposes of testing sperm quality in an accredited ART centre--up to, but not including, the first mitotic division; or
(b) in the case of hybrid embryo created by introducing the nucleus of
a human cell into an animal egg--for not longer than 14 days.