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SURROGACY ACT 2008 - SECT 36

36 .         Court order excluding access to information

        (1)         On an application for a parentage order or after a parentage order has been made, a party may apply to the court for an order excluding a person from having access under this Division to information.

        (2)         On an application under subsection (1), the court may make an order excluding a person from having access under this Division to information if it is satisfied that the person’s access to the information would be likely to place at serious risk —

            (a)         the applicant; or

            (b)         the person to whom the applicant is married, or with whom the applicant is in a de facto relationship; or

            (c)         any child of the applicant.

        (3)         The order may exclude access to all or specified information in all or specified circumstances, and may exclude access from being given by the court or exclude a right of access from arising under this Division.

        (4)         If an order is made under subsection (2), the registrar of the court is to give the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages a certified copy of the order as soon as is practicable.

        (5)         On the application of a person affected by an order under subsection (2), the court may revoke, suspend, or vary the order.



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