Victorian Numbered Acts

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 (NO. 76 OF 2008) - SECT 154

        After section 19 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 insert —

        ' 19A     Surrogate birth registration

    (1)     If the court makes a substitute parentage order under the Status of Children Act 1974 , on receipt of the sealed copy of the substitute parentage order the Registrar must—

        (a)     register the surrogacy by entering the prescribed particulars in the Surrogate Birth Register; and

        (b)     mark the words "closed—surrogate" against the original birth entry in the Register.

    (2)         If the court makes an order under the Status of Children Act 1974 for the discharge of a substitute parentage order, on receipt of the sealed copy of the discharge order the Registrar must—

        (a)     cancel the relevant entry in the Surrogate Birth Register; and

        (b)         remove the words "closed—surrogate" from the original birth entry in the Register.'.

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