1. Examples of the techniques which constitute genetic modification which are referred to in sub-paragraph (a) of the definition of “genetic modification” in regulation 2(1) are—N.I.
(a)recombinant nucleic acid techniques involving the formation of new combinations of genetic material by the insertion of nucleic acid molecules, produced by whatever means outside an organism, into any virus, bacterial plasmid or other vector system and their incorporation into a host organism in which they do not naturally occur but in which they are capable of continued propagation;
(b)techniques involving the direct introduction into an organism of heritable genetic material prepared outside the organism, including micro-injection, macro-injection and micro-encapsulation;
(c)cell fusion or hybridization techniques where live cells with new combinations of heritable genetic material are formed through the fusion of two or more cells by means of methods that do not occur naturally.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 2 para. 1 in operation at 25.9.2001, see reg. 1