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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2017-02-15" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>53</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
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    <name>Bills</name>
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      <heading>Bills</heading>
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    <subject>
      <name>Statutes Amendment (Surrogacy Eligibility) Bill</name>
      <bills>
        <bill id="s4070">
          <name>Statutes Amendment (Surrogacy Eligibility) Bill</name>
        </bill>
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      <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000847">
        <heading>Statutes Amendment (Surrogacy Eligibility) Bill</heading>
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      <subproceeding>
        <name>Final Stages</name>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000848">
          <heading>Final Stages</heading>
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        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000849">The House of Assembly agreed to amendments Nos 2 to 5 made by the Legislative Council without any amendment and has agreed to amendment No. 1 with an amendment as indicated in the following schedule:</text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000850">
          <inserted>No. 1. New clauses, page 2, after line 11—Before clause 4 insert:</inserted>
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        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000851">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>3A—Amendment of section 3—Interpretation</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000852">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>Section 3—after the definition of <term>recognised surrogacy agreement</term> insert:</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000853">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>registered objector—see section 8(3).</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000854">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>3B—Amendment of section 6—Eligibility for registration</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000855">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>Section 6—after its present contents (now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:</inserted>
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        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000856">
          <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="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000857">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>3C—Amendment of section 8—Registration</inserted>
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        </text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000858">
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            <inserted>(1)&amp;#x9;Section 8(2)—after paragraph (b) insert:</inserted>
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        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000859">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <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>
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        </text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000860">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(2)&amp;#x9;Section 8—after subsection (2) insert:</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000861">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <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="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000862">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(4)&amp;#x9;The Minister must publish the Register on a website maintained by the Minister for the purpose.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text continued="true" id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000863">
          <inserted>House of Assembly's Amendment thereto</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="20170215a7fd1295be534a4290000864">
          <inserted>Proposed new clause 3C—delete subsection (2) (4)</inserted>
        </text>
      </subproceeding>
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