SURROGACY ACT 2010 - SECT 32 Surrogacy guidance report

SURROGACY ACT 2010 - SECT 32

32 Surrogacy guidance report

A surrogacy guidance report must be prepared by an independent and appropriately qualified counsellor and state the following matters—

(a) the reasons the counsellor is an independent and appropriately qualified counsellor;

(b) that, for the application, the counsellor interviewed the birth mother, the birth mother’s spouse (if any), another birth parent (if any) and the applicant, or joint applicants, (the
"relevant persons" );

(c) the date or dates of the interviews;

(d) the counsellor’s opinion formed as a result of the interviews relevant to the application for a parentage order including, for example, about the following matters—

(i) each relevant person’s understanding of—

(A) the social and psychological implications of the making of a parentage order on the child and relevant persons;

(B) openness and honesty about the child’s birth parentage being for the wellbeing, and in the best interests, of the child;

(ii) the care arrangements that the applicant, or joint applicants, have proposed for the child;

(iii) whether the making of a parentage order would be for the wellbeing, and in the best interests, of the child.