New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2007 - SECT 7

7 Registration

(1) A person may apply to the Director-General for registration as an ART provider.

(2) An application is to be made in an approved form and be accompanied by the fee (if any) prescribed by the regulations.

(3) An application must include the following:

(a) the name of the applicant,

(b) the address of each premises at which the applicant intends to provide ART services,

(c) the name of each registered medical practitioner who is to undertake or supervise ART services provided by the applicant,

(d) the name of each person who is to provide counselling services in relation to ART services provided by the applicant,

(e) any other matter that is prescribed by the regulations.

(4) The Director-General must grant the applicant’s registration as an ART provider if an application for registration is duly made.

(5) Despite subsection (4), the Director-General must refuse to grant a person registration as an ART provider if the person is prohibited under Part 6 from carrying on a business that provides ART services.

(6) Registration as an ART provider takes effect when the Director-General gives the applicant notice of the decision to grant registration and remains in force until cancelled by the Director-General.

(7) The Director-General must cancel a person’s registration as an ART provider if:

(a) the person gives the Director-General notice that the person no longer provides ART services, or

(b) the person is prohibited under Part 6 from carrying on a business that provides ART services.

(8) A registered ART provider must (within such times as may be prescribed) pay to the Director-General the annual registration fee (if any) prescribed by the regulations.

(9) The regulations may prescribe different application fees and annual registration fees for different classes of ART providers, or on the basis of the number of premises at which an ART provider provides ART services, or both.

(10) The Director-General may cancel a person’s registration as an ART provider if the person fails to pay any fee as required by this section.