Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991

Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing a person who is or was a participant in relation to any procedure from obtaining access to information being kept by a licensee about that person in respect of that procedure under this Act, and a licensee shall facilitate any such access requested.

A person, on payment of the prescribed fee, shall be entitled to be furnished with information in a register kept under section 45(1)(a), (b) or (c) if the information supplied related to that person in their capacity as a participant in an artificial fertilisation procedure.

A person may, on payment of the prescribed fee, be furnished with information in a register kept under section 45 if —

it does not identify, but relates to —

a biological parent of that person; or

a child of which that person is a biological parent;

it is sought by a person so authorised by the CEO; or

it discloses only the social or public health connotations of reproductive technology; or

a written law so provides,

Nothing in this Act prohibits access to information in the register being given to —

an authorised officer, for the purposes of the administration of this Act or a prescribed written law; or

a licensee or a person authorised by that licensee, in relation to information previously supplied by that licensee but not otherwise, in order to carry out an artificial fertilisation procedure or to conduct research.

A licensee, or a person who during the period to which the requirement relates was a licensee, shall furnish to the CEO, in the prescribed manner, an annual return and explanatory documents, which may be required to include participant identifying information, showing such information as may be required by —

the Rules; or

the regulations; or

the CEO, by direction in writing.

A person who fails to comply with a requirement made under subsection (1) commits an offence.