Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Infertility Treatment Act 1995 - SECT 62

Register to be kept for licensed centre

62. Register to be kept for licensed centre



(1) The licensee of a licensed centre must keep a Register for that centre at
the centre or at another place that is specified in the licence for the
centre.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) The designated officer of a licensed centre must ensure that there is
recorded in the Register, in the prescribed manner, the prescribed information
in relation to the following-

   (a)  the donors of gametes and embryos kept or stored at the centre
        including any known physical abnormality of each donor;

   (b)  the destruction or disposal at the centre of any gametes or embryos
        formed outside the body of a woman;

   (ba) any human embryo that becomes an excess ART embryo within the meaning
        of Part 2A;



   (c)  the formation or attempted formation at the centre of an embryo
        outside the body of a woman;

   (d)  each woman who undergoes a treatment procedure at the centre and the
        husband of that woman including any known physical abnormality of the
        woman or her husband;

   (e)  any treatment procedure carried out on a woman at the centre;

   (f)  the use of a gamete or embryo in a treatment procedure or research
        under Part 3 at the centre;

   (g)  any gametes or embryos transferred from the centre to another licensed
        centre or to a doctor who has been approved under Part 8 to carry out
        donor insemination at a place other than a licensed centre;

   (h)  any gametes or embryos, transferred from another licensed centre or a
        doctor who has been approved under Part 8 to carry out donor
        insemination at a place other than a licensed centre to the centre;

        (i)    the collection and storage of gametes or embryos at the centre;



   (j)  the consents and withdrawals of consent to the storage and removal
        from storage of gametes or embryos at the centre;

   (k)  the bringing into or taking out of the State of any gametes or embryos
        which have been or are stored or kept at the centre;

   (l)  each consent, objection, withdrawal or lapsing of consent or objection
        given under this Act for a treatment procedure or research under
        Part 3 carried out at the centre;

   (m)  any amounts paid to donors in respect of donations made at the centre;

   (n)  the outcome of a treatment procedure, if this information is available
        at the centre or known to the designated officer, including
        particulars of-

   (i)  a confirmed pregnancy resulting from a treatment procedure carried out
        at the centre; and

   (ii) the miscarriage of a pregnancy from a treatment procedure carried out
        at the centre or the death of an embryo or foetus carried by a woman
        as a result of a treatment procedure carried out at the centre;

   (o)  a person born as a result of a treatment procedure at the centre, if
        this information is available at the centre or known to the designated
        officer, including particulars of-

   (i)  the birth of the person; and

   (ii) any physical abnormality of the person, identified at or about the
        time of birth of the person. Penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3) The designated officer must ensure that there is recorded in the Register,
in the manner determined by the Authority, any information required to be
recorded in the Register by a licence condition imposed by the Authority.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.