Victorian Numbered Acts

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 (NO. 76 OF 2008) - SECT 1

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

        (e)     to establish the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority; and

        (f)     to provide for the keeping of the Central Register and the Voluntary Register by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages; 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.