Comments on: Surrogacy decision and gay dads /opinion/soapbox-opinion/surrogacy-decision-and-gay-dads/15165 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Paul Boers /opinion/soapbox-opinion/surrogacy-decision-and-gay-dads/15165#comment-15680 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:06:27 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=15165#comment-15680 Editor please note, NSW does not have a Family Law Act, that is Commonwealth legislation.

We are yet to enact laws in NSW to deal with surrogacy arrangements, but it is in progress. However I don’t know whether it will deal with overseas arrangements, and I suspect not.

]]> By: Paul Mitchell /opinion/soapbox-opinion/surrogacy-decision-and-gay-dads/15165#comment-15663 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:50:58 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=15165#comment-15663 ART, surrogacy and IVF parentage are under the NSW Status of Children Act 1996 No 76 (Amended by the Miscellaneous Acts Amendment [Same Sex Relationships] Act). This law regarded rights for lesbian parentage, marital status and 59 de facto recognition laws just in NSW.

Proof/source:

Miscellaneous Acts Amendment (Same Sex Relationships) Act 2008. Assented to 11.6.2008.
Date of commencement, 22.9.2008, sec 2 and GG No 118 of 19.9.2008, p 9283.

]]> By: Paul Mitchell /opinion/soapbox-opinion/surrogacy-decision-and-gay-dads/15165#comment-15660 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:42:01 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=15165#comment-15660 Finally some decent progress for us gays in this country!!!!

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