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SURROGACY ACT 2008 - SECT 38

38 .         Access to registration of birth

        (1)         A person has the right to have access to the registration of the birth of a person whose parentage has been transferred by a parentage order if and only if the person who is to have access is —

            (a)         the child to whose parentage the order relates; or

            (b)         a birth parent of the child; or

            (c)         an arranged parent of the child.

        (2)         Even though subsection (1) gives a person the right to have access to the registration of the birth, that access may be refused if —

            (a)         the person has not produced to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages or another appropriate officer proof of the person’s identity; or

            (b)         the person has not complied with a requirement of, or under, the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998 relating to that access.

        (3)         Subsection (1) does not prevent a person from exercising a right given by section 40(2) or 41(2) to have access to the registration of the birth.



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