Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Status of Children Act 1974 - SECT 10F

Donor of semen used in artificial insemination of certain women

10F. Donor of semen used in artificial insemination of certain women



(1) Where semen is used in a procedure of artificial insemination of a woman
who is not a married woman or of a married woman otherwise than in accordance
with the consent of her husband, the man who produced the semen has no rights
and incurs no liabilities in respect of a child born as a result of a
pregnancy occurring by reason of the use of that semen unless, at any time, he
becomes the husband of the mother of the child.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the rights and liabilities of a man
who becomes the husband of the mother of a child so born are the rights and
liabilities of a father of a child but, in the absence of agreement to the
contrary, do not include liabilities incurred before the man becomes the
husband of the mother.

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