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Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004

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

55: Registrar-General and providers must keep information about donor offspring

You could also call this:

"Important records about kids born from donors must be kept safe by officials and helpers."

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The Registrar-General has to keep all the information given under section 53 or section 54 forever. You can think of the Registrar-General like a person who keeps very important records. They have to keep these records indefinitely, which means they will keep them for a very long time.

A provider, which is a person or organisation that helps with things like donor conception, has to keep all the information they get under section 53 or accept under section 56 for a certain amount of time. This time is called the specified period.

The specified period starts from the birth date of the donor offspring and ends after a certain time, which is either 50 years after the birth date or when the provider stops being a provider and there is no one to take their place.

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Information about donor offspring

55Registrar-General and providers must keep information about donor offspring

  1. The Registrar-General must keep indefinitely all information given under section 53 or section 54.

  2. A provider must keep all information obtained under section 53 or accepted under section 56 until the expiry of the specified period.

  3. In subsection (2), specified period means the period that starts with the date of the birth of the donor offspring concerned and expires on the earlier of the following:

  4. 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.