PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title and commencement
1. This Act may be cited as the Status of Children (Assisted Reproduction Technology) Act 2013 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
"appointed day" means the date of commencement of this Act;
"court" means the High Court;
"de facto partner", in relation to a gestational mother (whether married or not) at a given point in time, means the man, if any, with whom the gestational mother is living in a relationship as if he were her spouse at that point in time;
"egg" means a live human egg and includes the cells of the female germ line at any stage of maturity but, except in the definition of "embryo", shall not include an egg that is in the process of fertilisation or undergoing any other process capable of resulting in an embryo;
"embryo" means a live human embryo and includes an egg that is in the process of fertilisation or undergoing any other process capable of resulting in an embryo;
"fertilisation procedure" means—
- (a) the placing of an embryo or of sperm and eggs in a woman;
- (b) the artificial insemination of a woman; or
- (c) any other prescribed procedure for the assisted conception of children;
"gestational mother" means the woman who is treated as the mother of a child under section 6;
