(1) This section applies if a contact preference lodged under section 63I—
(a) is lodged by the parent or guardian of a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure; and
(b) is in force on the day on which the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure turns 18 years of age.
(2) A contact preference to which this section applies expires 6 months after the day on which the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure turns 18 years of age.
(3) Before a contact preference expires under subsection (2), the Authority must make all reasonable efforts to give the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure written notice—
(a) as to when the contact preference will expire under subsection (2); and
(b) that the person may—
(i) withdraw the contact preference; or
(ii) withdraw the contact preference and lodge a contact preference in relation to the applicant to whom the withdrawn contact preference related; or
(iii) if the contact preference expires, lodge a contact preference in relation to the applicant to whom the expired contact preference related.
(4) The person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure may, within 6 months after the day on which that person turns 18 years of age, withdraw the contact preference.
(5) If the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure withdraws the contact preference under subsection (4), the person may lodge a contact preference under section 63I in relation to the applicant to whom the withdrawn contact preference related.
(6) The Authority must, as soon as practicable after a contact preference expires under subsection (2) or is withdrawn under subsection (4), notify any applicant to whom the contact preference relates.
S. 63M inserted by No. 6/2016 s. 23.