Information to be given to sampler before sample taken
6 Information to be given to sampler before sample taken
A sampler must not take a sample from a donor for a parentage testing procedure unless, immediately before the sampler takes the sample, a relevant person for an affidavit for the donor—
makes an affidavit in the approved form; and
attaches a recent photograph of the donor to the affidavit; and
signs the relevant person’s name partly on the photograph and partly on the affidavit in the way required by the approved form; and
gives the affidavit and another recent photograph of the donor to the sampler.
In this section—
recent photograph, of a donor, means a photograph of the donor that satisfies the requirements for the photograph stated in the approved form.
relevant person, for an affidavit for a donor, means—
if the donor is a child who is under 16 years or is a child who is 16 or 17 years with impaired capacity—a person who may consent to the carrying out of a parentage testing procedure on the donor under section 11(4)(b) of the Act; or
if the donor is an adult with impaired capacity—a person who may consent to the carrying out of a parentage testing procedure on the donor under section 11(4)(c) of the Act; or
otherwise—the donor.
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