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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

60: Access by donors to information about donor offspring kept by providers

You could also call this:

"Donors can ask to know if their donation helped create a child and get some information about them."

Illustration for Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2004

If you are a donor, you can ask a provider if any children have been born from your donated embryo or cell. The provider must tell you if they know of any children and what sex they are. You can also ask the provider for more information about the children, but only if the children have said it is okay to share this information with you. The provider might not give you this information if they think it could put someone in danger.

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

60Access by donors to information about donor offspring kept by providers

  1. At the request of a donor, a provider must tell the donor whether, to the best of the provider's knowledge, there have been born any donor offspring formed from a donated embryo or a donated cell given to or through the provider and (if so) the sex of each donor offspring.

  2. If the provider has the donor offspring's consent to give the donor access to identifying information about the donor offspring, the provider must do so at the donor's request.

  3. The provider may refuse to disclose to the donor, or give the donor access to, information about the donor offspring if satisfied, on reasonable grounds, that to do so is likely to endanger any person.

  4. Subsection (3) overrides subsections (1) and (2).