Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

PARENTAGE ACT 2004 - SECT 24

    (1)     In this Act:

"reasonable expense", in relation to a presumed parent under a surrogacy arrangement, means an expense paid or owing that is—

        (a)     verified by a receipt or other document; and

        (b)     reasonably necessary or reasonably incidental to any of the following:

              (i)     becoming or trying to become pregnant;

              (ii)     a pregnancy or a birth;

              (iii)     entering into and giving effect to a surrogacy arrangement.

    (2)     Without limiting subsection (1) (b), a regulation may also prescribe an expense as reasonably necessary or reasonably incidental to a matter mentioned in subsection (1) (b).