Family Law Amendment Act (No. 72 of 1983) , 28 October 1983
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 52
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289592 Document Number: 380046
This Act contains the following provision relating to the status of children born in Australia as the result of assisted reproduction: "Certain children deemed to be children of mother's husband. 5A. 1) A child born to a woman as a result of the carrying out, during the period in which the woman was married to a man, of a medical procedure in relation to that woman, being a child who is not biologically the child of that man, shall, for the purposes of section 5, be deemed to be a child of that man if (a) the medical procedure was carried out with the consent of that man; or (b) under an Act or under a law of a State or Territory the child is deemed to be the child of that man. 2) The provisions of this section apply in relation to a purported marriage that is void as if the purported marriage were a marriage and as if the parties to the purported marriage were husband and wife. 3) In this section, 'medical procedure' means artificial insemination or the implantation of an embryo in the body of a woman."