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Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004

Information about donors of donated embryos or donated cells and donor offspring - Information about donors

48: Providers and Registrar-General must keep information about donors

You could also call this:

"Doctors and clinics must store info about people who donate embryos or cells to help others have babies."

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When you donate an embryo or a cell, the provider gets information about you. They must keep this information, as stated in section 47. You can think of a provider like a doctor or a clinic that helps people have babies.

If a baby is born using the donated embryo or cell, the provider must give the information to the Registrar-General. This happens when 50 years have passed since the baby was born, or when the provider is no longer doing their job and there is no one to replace them.

The Registrar-General must keep the information forever. If no baby is born from the donated embryo or cell, the provider can destroy the information when certain things happen, like if the pregnancy ends without a baby being born, or if the embryo or cell is destroyed.

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Part 3Information about donors of donated embryos or donated cells and donor offspring
Information about donors

48Providers and Registrar-General must keep information about donors

  1. A provider must, in accordance with this section, keep all information about a donor obtained or accepted under section 47 in relation to any donated embryo or a donated cell.

  2. In any case where the use of the donated embryo or the donated cell results in the birth of a living donor offspring, the provider must give the information to the Registrar-General on the earlier of the following events:

  3. the expiry of 50 years after the date of that birth:
    1. the provider ceasing to be a provider in circumstances where there is no successor provider.

      1. The Registrar-General must keep indefinitely all information given under subsection (2).

      2. In any case where no living donor offspring is formed from the donated embryo or the donated cell, the provider may destroy the information on the occurrence of any of the following events:

      3. the termination (otherwise than by the birth of a living child) of a pregnancy resulting from the implantation of a donated embryo or an embryo formed from the donated cell:
        1. the destruction before implantation of a donated embryo or an embryo formed from the donated cell:
          1. the destruction of the donated cell.