Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Infertility Treatment Act 1995 - SECT 8

Persons who may undergo treatment procedures

8. Persons who may undergo treatment procedures



(1) A woman who undergoes a treatment procedure must-

   (a)  be married and living with her husband on a genuine domestic basis; or

   (b)  be living with a man in a de facto relationship.

(2) Before a woman undergoes a treatment procedure she and her husband must
consent to the carrying out of the kind of procedure to be carried out.





(3) Before a woman undergoes a treatment procedure-

   (a)  a doctor must be satisfied, on reasonable grounds, from an examination
        or from treatment he or she has carried out that the woman is unlikely
        to become pregnant from an oocyte produced by her and sperm produced
        by her husband other than by a treatment procedure; or

   (b)  a doctor, who has specialist qualifications in human genetics, must be
        satisfied, from an examination he or she has carried out, that if the
        woman became pregnant from an oocyte produced by her and sperm
        produced by her husband, a genetic abnormality or a disease might be
        transmitted to a person born as a result of the pregnancy.