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SURROGACY ACT 2010 - SECT 35 Counselling must have been obtained

SURROGACY ACT 2010 - SECT 35

Counselling must have been obtained

35 Counselling must have been obtained

(1) Each of the affected parties must have received counselling from a qualified counsellor about the surrogacy arrangement and its social and psychological implications before entering into the surrogacy arrangement.
(2) The birth mother and the birth mother's partner (if any) must have received further counselling from a qualified counsellor about the surrogacy arrangement and its social and psychological implications after the birth of the child and before consenting to the parentage order.
(3) This precondition does not apply to a pre-commencement surrogacy arrangement.
(4) If the Court grants leave to an intended parent to make a sole application in respect of a surrogacy arrangement that involves 2 intended parents, it is not necessary to establish that the intended parent who is not a party to the application received counselling about the surrogacy arrangement.