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ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 25

Information and advice

    (1)     Before a woman undergoes a donor treatment procedure, the registered ART provider carrying out the treatment procedure must give the woman and her partner, if any, written advice about—

        (a)     the rights of any person born as a result of that procedure, the donor and any other persons to information under Divisions 2 and 3 of Part 6; and

        (b)     the nature of the information about the woman and her partner, if any, that is recorded in the Central Register; and

        (c)     the rights of the woman and her partner, if any, to obtain information under Division 3 of Part 6; and

        (d)     the existence and function of the Voluntary Register.

S. 25(2) inserted by No. 39/2021 s. 18.

    (2)     Before a woman undergoes artificial insemination using donor sperm carried out by a doctor who carries out artificial insemination other than on behalf of a registered ART provider, the doctor must give the woman and her partner, if any, written advice about—

        (a)     the rights of any person born as a result of that procedure, the donor and any other persons to information under Divisions 2 and 3 of Part 6; and

        (b)     the nature of the information about the woman and her partner, if any, that is recorded in the Central Register; and

        (c)     the rights of the woman and her partner, if any, to obtain information under Division 3 of Part 6; and

        (d)     the existence and function of the Voluntary Register.

Part 3—Offences relating to use and storage
of gametes and embryos and other matters

Division 1—Prohibited procedures



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