ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 63J Form of contact preference

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 63J

    (1)     A contact preference lodged under section 63I must be in the form approved by the Secretary.

    (2)     A contact preference may state that—

        (a)     the person does not wish to be contacted by the applicant; or

        (b)     the person wishes any contact with the applicant to occur only in a specified way.

    (3)     The Authority must, before the contact preference is lodged, offer the following persons counselling by a counsellor on matters prescribed for the purposes of this section—

        (a)     if the contact preference is to be lodged by the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure, that person;

        (b)     if the contact preference is to be lodged by the parent or guardian of a child born as a result of a donor treatment procedure—

              (i)     the parent or guardian; and

              (ii)     if the Authority is informed that the child wishes to have counselling, the child.

S. 63K inserted by No. 6/2016 s. 23.