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ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 62

Notice to be given of intended disclosure

S. 62(1) amended by No. 39/2024 s. 34(1).

    (1)     If the Donor Conception Registrar intends to disclose under this Division identifying information relating to a person (other than a pre-1998 donor or a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure), the Donor Conception Registrar must make all reasonable efforts to give notice of the intended disclosure together with any prescribed explanatory material to that person.

S. 62(2) amended by No. 39/2024 s. 34(2)(a).

    (2)     If the Donor Conception Registrar intends to disclose identifying information under this Division relating to a pre‑1998 donor, the Donor Conception Registrar must make all reasonable efforts to inform the donor that—

        (a)     an application for the disclosure of the donor's identifying information has been made by—

              (i)     a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure; or

              (ii)     the parent of a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure; or

              (iii)     a person who is descended from a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure; and

S. 62(2)(b) amended by No. 39/2024 s. 34(2)(a)(b).

        (b)     the donor may lodge with the Donor Conception Registrar a contact preference under section 63C.

S. 62(2)(c) repealed by No. 39/2024 s. 34(2)(c).

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S. 62(3) amended by No. 39/2024 s. 34(3)(a).

    (3)     If the Donor Conception Registrar intends to disclose identifying information under this Division relating to a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure, the Donor Conception Registrar must make all reasonable efforts to inform that person or, if the person is a child, the person's parent or guardian—

        (a)     that an application for the disclosure of the person's identifying information has been made by the donor whose gametes were used in the donor treatment procedure; and

S. 62(3)(b) amended by No. 39/2024 s. 34(3)(a)(b).

        (b)     that the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure or, if the person is a child, the person's parent or guardian, may lodge with the Donor Conception Registrar a contact preference under section 63I.

S. 62(3)(c) repealed by No. 39/2024 s. 34(3)(c).

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S. 62(4) inserted by No. 39/2024 s. 34(4).

    (4)     In addition, if the Donor Conception Registrar intends to disclose identifying information under this Division relating to a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure or a pre‑1998 donor, the Donor Conception Registrar must make all reasonable efforts to give that person, or if the person is a child, the person's parent or guardian, any prescribed explanatory material.

Pt 6 Div. 3A (Heading) inserted by No. 6/2016 s. 23.

Division 3A—Disclosure and contact preferences for pre-1998 donors

S. 63 amended by No. 58/2014 s. 14, substituted by No. 6/2016 s. 23.



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