Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Infertility Treatment Act 1995 - SECT 63

Register to be kept by doctor carrying out donor insemination

63. Register to be kept by doctor carrying out donor insemination



(1) A doctor who has been approved under Part 8 to carry out donor
insemination at a place other than a licensed centre must keep a Register at
premises specified in the approval.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.

(2) For each artificial insemination of a woman with sperm from a man who is
not the husband of the woman carried out by the doctor at a place other than a
licensed centre, the doctor must record in the Register, in the prescribed
manner, the prescribed information in relation to the following-

   (a)  the insemination;

   (b)  the donor of the sperm used in the insemination, including any known
        physical abnormality of that donor;

   (c)  the woman who is inseminated with the donated sperm and her husband,
        including any known physical abnormality of that woman or her husband;

   (d)  any amount paid to the donor of sperm in respect of the donation for
        the insemination;

   (e)  the outcome of the insemination, if this is known to the doctor,
        including-

   (i)  a confirmed pregnancy resulting from the insemination; and

   (ii) the miscarriage of a pregnancy resulting from the insemination or the
        death of an embryo or a foetus carried by a woman as a result of the
        insemination; and

   (f)  a person born as the result of the insemination, if this is known to
        the doctor, 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) A doctor who has been approved under Part 8 to carry out donor
insemination at a place other than a licensed centre must record in the
Register kept by the doctor, in the prescribed manner, the prescribed
information relating to the following-

   (a)  the destruction or disposal of any sperm;

   (b)  each consent, withdrawal or lapsing of consent or objection given
        under this Act for donor insemination;

   (c)  each objection or withdrawal of objection to the use of the donated
        sperm;

   (d)  any sperm transferred from the premises where an insemination may be
        carried out; and

   (e)  any sperm kept at the premises where an insemination is to be carried
        out.

(4) The doctor must record in the Register in the manner determined by the
Authority, any information required to be recorded in the Register by a
condition imposed on the doctor's approval by the Authority.

Penalty: 50 penalty units.