Queensland Consolidated Acts

SURROGACY ACT 2010 - SECT 10

10 Meaning of commercial surrogacy arrangement

A surrogacy arrangement is a
"commercial surrogacy arrangement" if a person receives a payment, reward or other material benefit or advantage (other than the reimbursement of the birth mother’s surrogacy costs) for the person or another person—

(a) agreeing to enter into or entering into the surrogacy arrangement; or

(b) permanently relinquishing to 1 or more intended parents the custody and guardianship of a child born as a result of the surrogacy arrangement; or

(c) consenting to the making of a parentage order for a child born as a result of the surrogacy arrangement.