Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally imports an embryo into Victoria knowing that, or reckless as to whether, the embryo is a prohibited embryo.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally exports an embryo from Victoria knowing that, or reckless as to whether, the embryo is a prohibited embryo.
(3) A person commits an offence if the person intentionally places an embryo in the body of a woman knowing that, or reckless as to whether, the embryo is a prohibited embryo.
(4) In this section—
"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 that contains genetic material provided by more than 2 persons; or
(d) a human embryo that has been developing outside the body of a woman for a period of more than 14 days, excluding any period when development is suspended; or
(e) a human embryo using precursor cells taken from a human embryo or a human foetus; or
(f) a human embryo that contains a human cell (within the meaning of section 11) 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.
(5) An offence against subsection (1), (2) or (3) is an indictable offence punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years.