Genetically Modified Organisms

A genetically modified organism (GMO) is defined in The Act to mean:

• an organism that has been modified by gene technology; or
• an organism that has inherited traits from an organism (the initial organism), being traits that occurred in the initial organism because of gene technology; or
• anything declared by the Regulations to be a genetically modified organism, or that belongs to a class of things declared by the regulations to be Genetically Modified Organisms ;

but does not include:

• a human being, if the human being is covered by paragraph (1) only because a human being has undergone somatic cell gene therapy; or
• an organism declared by the Regulations not to be a genetically modified organism, or that belongs to a class of organism declared by the Regulations not to be Genetically Modified Organisms.