Community Law Reform

Artificial Conception (Amendment) Bill 1996

Report 17: October 1997

Community Law Reform Committee

This report was tabled in the ACT Legislative Assembly on 6/11/97 by the Attorney-General, Mr Gary Humphries.

• Table Of Contents
• Glossary and Recommendations
  • Glossary
  • Recommendations
• Introduction
  • Background
  • Terms of reference
  • International Obligations
  • The national debate about substitute parent agreements
  • Substitute Parent Agreements Act 1994
    • Application of Act
  • Conclusion
• Parentage
  • My child
  • Presumptions of parentage
  • Adoption
  • Parental Responsibilities
  • Child Welfare Laws
  • Maintenance
  • Conclusion
• Issues
  • Who may seek an order?
  • Mandatory Counselling and Assessment
  • The best interests of the child
  • The legal framework for non-commercial substitute parent agreements in the ACT
    • Identity
    • Which children does the Bill cover?
    • Applying for an order / Characteristics of applicants
    • Time limits for applications
    • Conflict between different sets of parents
    • Freely given consent
    • Naming the child
    • General effect of Orders
    • Disposition of property
    • Distribution of property by trustee or personal representative
    • Bequests by will and gifts inter vivos to unascertained prescribed child
    • Child need not be identified as beneficiary
    • Records