This legislation has been repealed.
Offence-heritable alterations to genome38J. 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. (2) In this section- human cell includes a human embryonal cell, a human foetal cell, human sperm and a human egg. (3) An offence against subsection (1) is an indictable offence punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years.