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  <name>House of Assembly</name>
  <date date="2017-02-14" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>House of Assembly</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Bills</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Statutes Amendment (Surrogacy Eligibility) Bill</name>
      <bills>
        <bill id="r4059">
          <name>Statutes Amendment (Surrogacy Eligibility) Bill</name>
        </bill>
      </bills>
      <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001332">
        <heading>Statutes Amendment (Surrogacy Eligibility) Bill</heading>
      </text>
      <subproceeding>
        <name>Final Stages</name>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001333">
          <heading>Final Stages</heading>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001334">The Legislative Council agreed to the bill with the amendments indicated by the following schedule, to which amendments the Legislative Council desires the concurrence of the House of Assembly:</text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001335">
          <inserted>No. 1. New clauses, page 2, after line 11—Before clause 4 insert:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001336">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>3A—Amendment of section 3—Interpretation</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001337">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>Section 3—after the definition of <term>recognised surrogacy agreement</term> insert:</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001338">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>registered objector—see section 8(3).</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001339">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>3B—Amendment of section 6—Eligibility for registration</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001340">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>Section 6—after its present contents (now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:</inserted>
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        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001341">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(2)&amp;#x9;The fact that an applicant for registration has a religious objection to the provision of assisted reproductive treatment to another on the basis of the other's sexual orientation or gender identity, or marital status is not, of itself, grounds for finding that a person is not fit and proper to be registered.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001342">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>3C—Amendment of section 8—Registration</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001343">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(1)&amp;#x9;Section 8(2)—after paragraph (b) insert:</inserted>
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        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001344">
          <item sublevel="4">
            <inserted>(ab)&amp;#x9;if the person notifies the Minister that the person has a religious objection to the provision of assisted reproductive treatment to another on the basis of the other's sexual orientation or gender identity, or marital status—that fact; and</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001345">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(2)&amp;#x9;Section 8—after subsection (2) insert:</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001346">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(3)&amp;#x9;A person referred to in subsection (2)(ab) may, for the purposes of this or any other Act, be referred to as a <term>registered objector</term>.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001347">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(4)&amp;#x9;The Minister must publish the Register on a website maintained by the Minister for the purpose.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001348">
          <inserted>No. 2. Clause 4, page 2, line 14 [clause 4(1), inserted paragraph (ba)]—</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001349">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>Before 'a condition' insert 'subject to subsection (1a),'</inserted>
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        </text>
        <page num="8434" />
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001350">
          <inserted>No. 3. Clause 4, page 3, after line 6—After subclause (3) insert:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001351">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(4)&amp;#x9;Section 9—after subsection (1) insert:</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001352">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(1a)&amp;#x9;Section 9(1)(ba) does not apply to a registered objector but, in that case, it is instead a condition of the registered objector's registration that the registered objector take steps to refer the person seeking assisted reproductive treatment to another person who is registered under this Part.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001353">
          <inserted>No. 4. Clause 5, page 3, after line 17—After inserted subsection (2) insert:</inserted>
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          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(2a)&amp;#x9;Despite subsection (2), the refusal by a person who is a registered objector within the meaning of the <term>Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 1988</term> to provide assisted reproductive treatment to another on the basis of the other's sexual orientation or gender identity, or marital status will not be taken to be refusal of a service to which this Act applies.</inserted>
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        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001355">
          <inserted>No. 5. Clause 9, page 4, lines 29 to 32 (inclusive) [clause 9, inserted subsection (2a)(e)]—</inserted>
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        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001356">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>Delete paragraph (e) and substitute:</inserted>
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        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001357">
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            <inserted>(e)&amp;#x9;either—</inserted>
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        </text>
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001358">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(i)&amp;#x9;it appears to be unlikely in the circumstances that a commissioning parent would become pregnant, or be able to carry a pregnancy or give birth (whether because of infertility, other medical reasons, risk to an unborn child or for some other reason); or</inserted>
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        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001359">
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            <inserted>(ii)&amp;#x9;there appears to be a risk that a serious genetic defect, serious disease or serious illness would be transmitted to a child born to a commissioning parent; or</inserted>
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        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001360">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(iii)&amp;#x9;there appears to be a risk that becoming pregnant or giving birth to a child would result in physical harm to a female commissioning parent (being harm of a kind, or of a severity, unlikely to be suffered by females becoming pregnant or giving birth generally);</inserted>
          </item>
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        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001361" />
        <text id="201702145d35996e200949f780001362">At 17:39 the house adjourned until Wednesday 15 February 2017 at 11:00.</text>
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