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SURROGACY ACT 2008 - SECT 11

11 .         Services connected with surrogacy arrangement that is for reward

        (1)         A person who provides a service knowing that the service is to facilitate a surrogacy arrangement that is for reward commits a crime except in the circumstances described in subsection (2).

        (2)         It is not an offence against subsection (1) if the service is a health service provided to the birth mother after she has become pregnant.

        Penalty: imprisonment for 5 years.

        Summary conviction penalty: a fine of $12 000 or imprisonment for one year.



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