ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2007 - SECT 33D Secretary to ensure accuracy of central register in relation to ART treatment

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2007 - SECT 33D

33D Secretary to ensure accuracy of central register in relation to ART treatment

(1) The Secretary is to ensure that, as far as is practicable, the information in the central register is accurate and not misleading and is consistent with the objectives of the register and for these purposes the Secretary may do any one or more of the following:

(a) refuse to enter information, or revise information or omit information,

(b) retain superseded information (such as a person's former name),

(c) add any notes or annotations that the Secretary considers to be appropriate.

(1A) The Secretary may, on the Secretary's own initiative, enter in the central register information relating to any of the following persons:

(a) a live offspring whom the Secretary has reasonable grounds to be satisfied was born as a result of the provision by an ART provider of ART treatment, on or after 1 January 2010, using a donated gamete,

(b) a person whom the Secretary has reasonable grounds to be satisfied is the donor from whom the donated gamete was obtained (the
"gamete provider" ),

(c) the woman who gave birth to the offspring.

(1B) The information that may be entered on the central register under subsection (1A) includes any of the following:

(a) the full name, sex and date of birth of the offspring,

(b) the full name, residential address, date of birth, ethnicity, physical characteristics and relevant medical history of the gamete provider,

(c) the sex and year of birth of each offspring of the gamete provider,

(d) the gamete provider's consent (within the meaning of Division 3 of Part 2) relating to the gamete or embryo that the Secretary has reasonable grounds to be satisfied was used in the ART treatment,

(e) the full name of the woman who gave birth to the offspring,

(f) the full name of the spouse (if any) of that woman,

(g) any other matters that are prescribed by the regulations.

(1C) Without limiting subsection (1) (c), the Secretary must note in the central register the source of any information entered in the central register under subsection (1A) (including whether the information was obtained in response to a direction under section 34).

(2) The Secretary must remove information from the register that has been provided voluntarily by a person if the person applies, in an approved form, to have the information removed and the Secretary is satisfied that the information is not information that is otherwise required to be on the register.