Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Infertility Treatment Act 1995 - SECT 1

PART 1 PRELIMINARY

Purposes

1. Purposes

The main purposes of this Act are-

   (a)  to regulate the use of in-vitro and other fertilisation procedures and
        donor insemination procedures;

   (b)  to regulate access to information about treatment procedures carried
        out under this Act and the Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act 1984;

   (ba) to regulate certain activities involving the use of human embryos;



   (bb) to prohibit human cloning and certain other practices associated with
        reproductive technology;

   (c)  to regulate research using human gametes and embryos;



   (d)  to promote research into the incidence and causes of infertility;

   (e)  to make provisions with respect to surrogacy agreements;

   (f)  to establish the Infertility Treatment Authority;



   (fa) to confer functions on the Embryo Research Licensing Committee of the
        National Health and Medical Research Council;

   (g)  to repeal the Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act 1984 and amend
        various other Acts.