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ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT AMENDMENT ACT 2021 (NO. 39 OF 2021)


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Purposes  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Principal Act  

   PART 2--AMENDMENTS TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

   4.      Definitions  
   5.      Guiding principles  
   6.      Section 8 substituted  
   7.      Requirements as to consent  
   8.      Counselling  
   9.      Donation of gametes or an embryo  
   10.     Requirements as to consent  
   11.     Counselling requirements  
   12.     Requirements as to the giving and receiving of information  
   13.     Withdrawal of consent  
   14.     New section 20A inserted  
   15.     Lapsing of consent  
   16.     Record of consent and withdrawal of consent  
   17.     Transfer of documents  
   18.     Information and advice  
   19.     Ban on using donated gametes to produce more than 10 families  
   20.     New section 30A inserted  
   21.     Storing embryos for later transfer  
   22.     Patient Review Panel may approve longer or further storage of embryos  
   23.     Removal of embryos from storage  
   24.     Time for removal of embryos from storage  
   25.     New section 42A inserted  
   26.     Surrogacy costs  
   27.     Matters to be considered by Patient Review Panel in deciding application for approval of surrogacy arrangement  
   28.     Counselling and legal information  
   29.     New section 44A inserted  
   30.     Requirements for posthumous use of gametes or an embryo in treatment provided by a registered ART provider  
   31.     Section 48 substituted  
   32.     Register to be kept by registered ART providers  
   33.     Heading to Division 2 of Part 6 amended  
   34.     New section 55A inserted  
   35.     Confidentiality of information on the Central Register  
   36.     Confidentiality of information on the Central Register disclosed by the Authority  
   37.     Report to Minister  
   38.     No action if gametes used without knowing consent withdrawn or lapsed  
   39.     New Division 7 of Part 13 inserted  

   PART 3--CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

   40.     Ban on using donated gametes to produce more than 10 families  
   41.     Commissioning parents not required to give donor's consent  

   PART 4--CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1974

   42.     Interpretation  
   43.     Application for a substitute parentage order  
   44.     Commissioning parents presumed to be named as legal parents  
   45.     Court may make substitute parentage order  
   46.     Additional requirements for surrogacy arrangements without assistance of registered ART provider  
   47.     Circumstances in which consent not required  
   48.     Effect of substitute parentage order  
   49.     Court may order discharge of substitute parentage order  
   50.     Application for a registration order  
   51.     Court may make registration order  
   52.     Circumstances in which consent to registration order not required  
   53.     Court may revoke registration order  
   54.     Access to court records  
   55.     Presumption as to status of child if female partner is deceased—surrogacy arrangements  
   56.     New section 39A inserted  
   57.     Legal status of deceased parent  

   PART 5--REPEAL OF THIS ACT

   58.     Repeal of this Act  
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