Queensland Consolidated Acts

SURROGACY ACT 2010

- As at 24 June 2024 
- Act 2 of 2010 

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

CHAPTER 1 - PRELIMINARY

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Dictionary

   PART 2 - APPLICATION, OBJECTS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

   4.      Act binds all persons
   5.      Main objects of Act
   6.      Guiding principles

   PART 3 - KEY CONCEPTS

   7.      Meaning of surrogacy arrangement
   8.      Meaning of birth mother, birth mother’s spouse and birth parents
   9.      Meaning of intended parent and couple
   10.     Meaning of commercial surrogacy arrangement
   11.     Meaning of birth mother’s surrogacy costs
   12.     Meaning of parentage order and discharge order
   13.     Meaning of court
   14.     Meaning of medical or social need for a surrogacy arrangement and eligible woman

CHAPTER 2 - SURROGACY ARRANGEMENTS

   15.     Enforcement
   16.     Rights of birth mother to manage pregnancy and birth
   17.     Presumptions under the Status of Children Act 1978
   18.     Registration of birth requirements

CHAPTER 3 - PARENTAGE ORDERS

   PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

   19.     Definitions for chapter

   PART 2 - MAKING A PARENTAGE ORDER

   20.     Purpose
   21.     Application for a parentage order
   22.     Making a parentage order
   23.     Dispensing with a requirement
   24.     Additional requirement if multiple births
   25.     Documents and information to be produced to court
   26.     Applicant’s or joint applicants’ affidavit
   27.     Birth mother’s affidavit
   28.     Birth mother’s spouse’s affidavit
   29.     Other birth parent’s affidavit
   30.     Lawyer’s affidavit
   31.     Initial counsellor’s affidavit
   32.     Surrogacy guidance report
   33.     Court may require attendance
   34.     Form of parentage order
   35.     Child’s name
   36.     Other orders
   37.     Other order if deceased intended parent
   38.     Notice if child in need of protection

   PART 3 - EFFECT OF A PARENTAGE ORDER

   39.     Effect on relationships
   40.     Effect for property
   41.     Public trustee to make inquiries if bequest to unlocatable child
   42.     Public trustee is trustee if bequest to unlocatable child
   43.     Public trustee’s fees for involvement
   44.     Transfer or distribution of property by trustee

   PART 4 - DISCHARGE OF A PARENTAGE ORDER

   45.     Definitions for part
   46.     Application for a discharge order
   47.     Making a discharge order
   48.     Effect of discharge order

   PART 5 - APPEALS

   49.     Appellants and appellable decisions
   50.     Appeal by rehearing

   PART 6 - PRIVACY

   51.     Hearing not to be in public
   52.     Access to court records
   53.     Publishing identifying material

CHAPTER 4 - MISCELLANEOUS

   PART 1 - OFFENCES

   54.     Territorial application
   55.     Advertisements and other published matters
   56.     Commercial surrogacy arrangements prohibited
   57.     Giving or receiving consideration
   58.     Providing technical, professional or medical services for a commercial surrogacy arrangement

   PART 2 - COURT MATTERS

   59.     Court rules
   60.     Court fees and other matters

CHAPTER 5 - REPEAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - REPEAL

   61.     Repeal of Surrogate Parenthood Act 1988

   PART 2 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR SURROGACY ACT 2010

   62.     Definitions for part
   63.     Application for parentage order in relation to pre-commencement surrogacy arrangement
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