The main purposes of this Act are—
(a) to regulate the use of assisted reproductive treatment and artificial insemination procedures (other than self-insemination); and
(b) to regulate access to information about treatment procedures carried out under this Act; and
(c) to promote research into the incidence, causes and prevention of infertility; and
(d) to make provision with respect to surrogacy arrangements; and
S. 1(e) repealed by No. 39/2024 s. 3(a).
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S. 1(f) amended by No. 39/2024 s. 3(b).
(f) to provide for the keeping of the Central Register and the Voluntary Register by the Donor Conception Registrar; and
(g) to repeal the Infertility Treatment Act 1995 ; and
(h) to amend the Status of Children Act 1974 and the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 and other Acts consequent on the enactment of this Act.