ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 63L Duration of contact preferences lodged by parent or guardian of person born as a result of donor treatment procedure

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TREATMENT ACT 2008 - SECT 63L

    (1)     This section applies if a contact preference lodged under section 63I—

        (a)     is lodged by the parent or guardian of a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure; and

        (b)     is in force on the day on which the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure turns 18 years of age.

    (2)     A contact preference to which this section applies expires 6 months after the day on which the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure turns 18 years of age.

    (3)     Before a contact preference expires under subsection (2), the Authority must make all reasonable efforts to give the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure written notice—

        (a)     as to when the contact preference will expire under subsection (2); and

        (b)     that the person may—

              (i)     withdraw the contact preference; or

              (ii)     withdraw the contact preference and lodge a contact preference in relation to the applicant to whom the withdrawn contact preference related; or

              (iii)     if the contact preference expires, lodge a contact preference in relation to the applicant to whom the expired contact preference related.

    (4)     The person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure may, within 6 months after the day on which that person turns 18 years of age, withdraw the contact preference.

    (5)     If the person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure withdraws the contact preference under subsection (4), the person may lodge a contact preference under section 63I in relation to the applicant to whom the withdrawn contact preference related.

    (6)     The Authority must, as soon as practicable after a contact preference expires under subsection (2) or is withdrawn under subsection (4), notify any applicant to whom the contact preference relates.

S. 63M inserted by No. 6/2016 s. 23.