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BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1996 - SECT 17B

Birth registration of child conceived by a treatment procedure

    (1)     If a birth registration statement specifies the child was conceived by a donor treatment procedure, the Registrar must mark the words "donor conceived" against the entry about the child's birth in the Register.

S. 17B(1A) inserted by No. 6/2016 s. 39.

    (1A)     If the Registrar receives information from VARTA disclosing that a child, whose birth was registered on or after 1 January 2010, was conceived by a donor treatment procedure, the Registrar must mark the words "donor conceived" against the entry about the child's birth in the Register.

    (2)     Subject to subsection (3), when the Registrar issues a certificate certifying particulars contained in an entry about the birth of a person conceived by a donor treatment procedure, the Registrar must attach an addendum to the certificate stating that further information is available about the entry.

    (3)     The Registrar must not issue the addendum referred to in subsection (2) to any person other than the person conceived by a donor treatment procedure named in the entry.

    (4)     In this section "donor treatment procedure "means a donor treatment procedure within the meaning of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008 .



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