"ART service" means any one or more of the following services, treatments or
procedures that is provided for fee or reward or provided in the course of a
business (whether or not for profit):
"ART treatment" means assisted reproductive technology treatment, being any
medical treatment or procedure that procures or attempts to procure pregnancy
in a woman by means other than sexual intercourse, and includes artificial
insemination, in-vitro fertilisation, gamete intrafallopian transfer and any
related treatment or procedure that is prescribed by the regulations.
"central register" means the central register established under Part 3.
Note : Section 8 (b) of the
Interpretation Act 1987 provides that in any Act or instrument a reference to
a word or expression in the singular form includes a reference to the word or
expression in the plural form.
"gamete provider" , in relation to a gamete, means the individual from whom
the gamete has been obtained and, in relation to an embryo, means an
individual from whom a gamete used to create the embryo was obtained.
"health services provider" means any of the following:
(b) a registered medical
practitioner, a person who has at any time been a registered medical
practitioner or a person who, at any time before the repeal of the
Medical Practice Act 1992 , was registered as a medical practitioner under
that Act,
"offspring" of a person means an individual to whom the person is a biological
parent and includes an individual born as a result of ART treatment using the
person's donated gamete.
"parental responsibility" , in relation to a child, means all the duties,
powers, responsibilities and authority which, by law, parents have in relation
to their children.
"premises" includes any land or building and part of any land or building.
"record" includes a book, account, deed, writing, document and any other
source of information compiled, recorded or stored in written form, or on
micro-film, or by electronic process, or in any other manner or by any other
means.
"registered ART provider" means a person registered by the Secretary under
Division 1 of Part 2 as an ART provider and whose registration is in force.
"relevant medical history" of a donor means any medical history or genetic
test results of the donor or the donor's family that are relevant to the
future health of any of the following: