Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978 - SECT 19D

19D Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor semen used

(1) A reference in this section to a fertilisation procedure is a reference to the procedure of implanting in the womb of a woman—

(a) an embryo derived from an ovum produced by her and fertilised outside her body by semen produced by a man who is not her husband; or

(b) for the purpose of fertilising an ovum inside her body, an ovum produced by the woman together with semen produced by a man other than her husband.

(2) If the woman has undergone a fertilisation procedure as a result of which she has become pregnant, the man who produced the semen has no rights or liabilities relating to any child born as a result of a pregnancy for which the semen has been used.

(3) The woman’s de facto partner is presumed, for all purposes, to be a parent of any child born as a result of the pregnancy.