Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

PARENTAGE ACT 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   3.      Dictionary  
   4.      Notes  
   5.      Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  

   PART 2--ESTABLISHING PARENTAGE

           Division 2.1--General

   6.      Purpose of pt 2  

           Division 2.2--Presumptions about parentage

   7.      Presumptions arising from marriage, civil union or civil partnership  
   8.      Presumption arising from domestic partnership  
   9.      Presumptions arising from registered information  
   10.     Presumptions arising from findings of courts  
   11.     Presumptions arising from procedure  

           Division 2.3--Effect of presumptions

   12.     Whether presumptions conclusive or rebuttable  
   13.     Conflicting presumptions  
   14.     Presumptions not to allow more than 2 parents  

           Division 2.4--Parentage declarations

   15.     Application for parentage declaration  
   16.     Further application for parentage declaration  
   17.     Refusal to hear application  
   18.     Adjournment of hearing  
   19.     Parentage declaration  
   20.     Application for annulment of parentage declaration  
   21.     Adjournment of hearing  
   22.     Annulment of parentage declaration  

           Division 2.5--Surrogacy

              Subdivision 2.5.1--Definitions—div 2.5

   23.     Definitions—div 2.5  
   24.     Meaning of reasonable expense  
   25.     Provision of counselling  

              Subdivision 2.5.2--Surrogacy arrangements

   26.     Surrogacy arrangement must be in writing  
   27.     Parties to surrogacy arrangement  
   28.     Legal advice  
   28A.    Counselling  
   28B.    Age of intended parent  
   28C.    Age of birth parent  
   28D.    Reasonable expenses incurred  
   28E.    Rights of birth parent  

              Subdivision 2.5.3--Parentage orders

   28F.    Application—subdiv 2.5.3  
   28G.    Application for parentage order  
   28H.    Making of parentage order  
   28I.    Relevant considerations for making of parentage order  
   28J.    Content of parentage order  
   28K.    Multiple births  
   28L.    Name of child  
   29.     Effect of parentage order and access to information  
   30.     Medical information  
   31.     Effect of surrogacy arrangements  

              Subdivision 2.5.4--Parentage orders—particular arrangements entered into before
              Parentage (Surrogacy) Amendment Act 2024

   31A.    Definitions—subdiv 2.5.4  
   31B.    Parentage order—commercial arrangement made and child born before commencement  
   31C.    Effect of parentage order mentioned in s 31B and access to  
   31D.    Effect of parentage order on commercial substitute parent  

           Division 2.6--Use of medical tests in establishing parentage

   32.     Definition for div 2.6  
   33.     Application of div 2.6  
   34.     Order to carry out medical tests  
   35.     Effect of failure to comply with parentage testing order  
   36.     Reports of medical tests  
   37.     Offences related to medical tests  

   PART 3--STATUS OF CHILDREN

   38.     Children all of equal status  
   39.     Construction of instruments  

   PART 4--OFFENCES RELATING TO SURROGACY ARRANGEMENTS

   40.     Meaning of commercial surrogacy arrangement  
   41.     Commercial surrogacy arrangements prohibited  
   42.     Procuring commercial surrogacy arrangements  
   43.     Advertising in relation to commercial surrogacy arrangements  
   44.     Facilitating pregnancy  
   45.     Geographical nexus for offences  

   PART 5--MISCELLANEOUS

   46.     Joinder of parties  
   47.     Notification of court orders to registrar-general  
   48.     Proof of orders etc about parentage  
   49.     Approved forms  
   50.     Regulation-making power  

   PART 7--TRANSITIONAL--PARENTAGE (SURROGACY) AMENDMENT ACT 2024

   53.     Definitions—pt 7  
   54.     Parentage order—substitute parent agreement and no parentage order before  
   55.     Parentage order—arrangement made and child born before commencement  
   56.     Parentage order—arrangement made, but child not born, before commencement  
   57.     Parentage order—commercial arrangement made, but child not born, before commencement  
   58.     Effect of parentage order mentioned in s 55 (4) and access to  
   59.     Effect of parentage order on commercial substitute parent  
   60.     Expiry—pt 7  
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