MEDI7232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Varta, Family Law Act 1975, Sam Groth
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Overview: artificial insemination (ai, donor insemination (di); Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi): pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (pgd) and pre-implantation genetic screening (pgs); Fertility society of australia (fsa: professional body overseeing regulation of art centres, accreditation process administered by the reproductive technology. It also requires compliance with legislation (eg at state level) & nhmrc developed by ahec: rtac developed the code of practice for assisted reproductive technology units. It must be observed in treatment of patients with artificial insemination, surrogacy, ivf and related techniques, and in all procedures involving donates gametes or embryos: national health and medical research council (nhmrc) Legal parentage: use of art (especially surrogacy arrangements) raises complexities, resolution process. Status of children act 1978 qld part 3 (s24) 20-23: eg - sperm donor has no parental status over unborn child, and also no financial obligations, also note relevance of family law act 1975 (cth) s 60h + groth v banks [2013]
