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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 No action if gametes used without knowing consent withdrawn or lapsed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
ENDNOTES
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