Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

PARENTAGE ACT 2004 - SECT 43

    (1)     A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     publishes an advertisement, notice or anything else with the intention of inducing someone to enter into a commercial surrogacy arrangement; or

        (b)     publishes an advertisement, notice or anything else that—

              (i)     is likely to induce someone to enter into a commercial surrogacy arrangement; or

              (ii)     seeks or purports to seek someone who is willing to enter into a commercial surrogacy arrangement; or

              (iii)     states or implies that someone is willing to enter into a commercial surrogacy arrangement.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (2)     In this section:

"publish"—something is published if it is—

        (a)     included in a newspaper, periodical publication or other publication; or

        (b)     publicly exhibited in, on, over or under a building, vehicle or place (whether or not a public place and whether on land or water), or in the air in view of people on a street or in a public place; or

        (c)     contained in a document given to someone or left on premises where someone lives or works; or

        (d)     broadcast by radio or television; or

        (e)     electronically disseminated in another way (for example, by inclusion on a web site).