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South Australia
Family Relationships (Surrogacy) Amendment
Bill 2012
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Family
Relationships Act 1975.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Family
Relationships Act 1975
3Amendment of section 10HA—Recognised
surrogacy agreements
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Family Relationships (Surrogacy) Amendment
Act 2012.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Family Relationships
Act 1975
3—Amendment
of section 10HA—Recognised surrogacy agreements
Section 10HA(2)(b)(v)(B)—delete subsubparagraph (B) and
substitute:
(B) the female commissioning parent is, or appears to be, unable on
medical grounds to carry a pregnancy or to give birth; or
(C) there appears to be a risk that a serious genetic defect, serious
disease or serious illness would be transmitted to a child born to the female
commissioning parent; or
(D) there appears to be a risk that becoming pregnant or giving birth to a
child would result in physical harm to the female commissioning parent (being
harm of a kind, or of a severity, unlikely to be suffered by women becoming
pregnant or giving birth generally);