Victorian Current Acts

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 49

    (1)     A registered ART provider must keep a register that includes the prescribed information in relation to the following—

        (a)     the donors of gametes and embryos kept or stored by the registered ART provider;

        (b)     the destruction or disposal by the registered ART provider of any gametes or an embryo formed outside the body of a woman;

        (c)     any human embryo kept or stored by the registered ART provider that becomes an excess ART embryo;

        (d)     each woman on whom the registered ART provider carries out a treatment procedure and the woman's partner, if any;

        (e)     any treatment procedure carried out on a woman by the registered ART provider;

        (f)     the use of gametes or an embryo in a treatment procedure carried out by the registered ART provider;

        (g)     any gametes or an embryo transferred between—

              (i)     the registered ART provider and another registered ART provider; or

              (ii)     the registered ART provider and a doctor;

        (h)     the collection and storage of gametes or an embryo by the registered ART provider;

S. 49(1)(i) amended by No. 39/2021 s. 32.

              (i)     the consents to the storage and removal from storage of gametes or an embryo by the registered ART provider;

        (j)     the bringing into or taking out of Victoria of any gametes or an embryo that have been or are stored or kept by the registered ART provider;

        (k)     each consent or withdrawal or lapsing of consent given under this Act for a treatment procedure by the registered ART provider;

        (l)     if the registered ART provider reimburses a donor for costs actually incurred by the donor in respect of a donation made to the registered ART provider, details of the reimbursement;

        (m)     the outcome of a treatment procedure including particulars of—

              (i)     a confirmed pregnancy resulting from a treatment procedure; and

              (ii)     the miscarriage of a pregnancy resulting from a treatment procedure;

        (n)     a person born as a result of a treatment procedure, including particulars of the birth of the person.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

    (2)     A designated officer of a registered ART provider must ensure that any information required, by a condition of registration imposed by the Authority, to be recorded in the register kept by the provider under subsection (1) is recorded in the register.

Penalty:     50 penalty units.

S. 49A inserted by No. 58/2014 s. 5.