Victorian Current Acts

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 122

    (1)     This section applies if a registered ART provider intends to cease operating.

    (2)     Before the registered ART provider ceases to operate the registered ART provider must make all reasonable efforts to—

        (a)     transfer to another registered ART provider or a hospital any gametes or embryos stored by the registered ART provider; and

        (b)         transfer to another registered ART provider, a hospital or the Registrar any record required, by or under this Act or the regulations, to be kept by the registered ART provider; and

        (c)     notify patients that the registered ART provider intends to cease to operate.

Example

By placing an advertisement in a newspaper published in the area in which the registered ART provider operates.

    (3)     In this section—

"hospital" means any of the following hospitals—

        (a)     a denominational hospital within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1988 ;

        (b)     a metropolitan hospital within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1988 ;

        (c)     a privately-operated hospital within the   meaning of the Health Services Act 1988 ;

        (d)     a public hospital within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1988 .