Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts5DA. Rule relating to parentage - female de facto partners
(1) Where a woman who is the de facto partner of another woman undergoes, with the consent of the other woman, a fertilization procedure as a result of which she becomes pregnant, the other woman is, for all purposes of the law of the Northern Territory, to be presumed to be a parent of -
(a) the unborn child; and
(b) a child born as a result of the pregnancy.
(2) A presumption of law that arises by virtue of subsection (1) is irrebuttable.
(3) In a proceeding in which the operation of subsection (1) is relevant, a woman's consent to the carrying out of a fertilzation procedure in respect of her de facto partner is to be presumed, but that presumption is rebuttable.