Regulation of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 1999

Public bill · Private Member · Presented

The proposal would create a register for assisted-reproduction providers, making registration compulsory and unregistered services an offence. It would establish an ethics committee to advise the Minister on reproductive techniques, make surrogacy agreements unenforceable, and clarify that sperm or egg donors have no parental rights or duties towards any resulting child.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to make provision for the establishment and maintenance by the Minister for Health and Children of a register of assisted human reproduction providers, to allow for the establishment of an ethics committee to advise on techniques of assisted human reproduction and their repercussions, to render surrogacy agreements void and unenforceable, and matters ancillary thereto

Last updated 26 July 2018