19AApplication for information on Central Register—prescribed explanatory material

19A Application for information on Central Register—prescribed explanatory material

For the purposes of section 56(4) of the Act, the following information is prescribed explanatory material—

(a) information about the requirements of Part 6 of the Act in relation to the disclosure of identifying information from the Central Register;

(b) information about the lodgement of a contact preference by or on behalf of a person whose identifying information is to be disclosed, including any possible consequences for the applicant;

(c) information about the requirements of Part 6 of the Act in relation to compliance with a contact preference lodged by a person whose identifying information is to be disclosed;

(d) information about the issues which may arise if the applicant intends to contact a person whose identifying information is to be disclosed;

(e) information about possible consequences for the applicant if the person whose identifying information is to be disclosed cannot be located or is deceased;

(f) if the applicant is a donor, information about possible consequences for the person, whose identifying information is to be disclosed, only becoming aware that the person was born as a result of a donor treatment procedure, as a consequence of the application being made;

(g) if the applicant is a parent of a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure, information about—

(i) advising the applicant's child of the child's donor origins; and

(iii) the significance to the applicant's child of a biological connection with the donor and the benefits of early disclosure and early connection with any donor siblings; and

(iv) how to support the applicant's child with the child's sense of identity; and

(v) any safety or privacy issues for the applicant's child that may arise if contact is established with the donor; and

(vi) any issues that may arise if the applicant's child makes contact with donor siblings who are raised in different families;

Donor siblings raised in different families according to different beliefs and values or in different geographic locations.

(h) if the person whose identifying information is to be disclosed is a donor, information about possible consequences of the donor becoming aware as a consequence of the application being made that a person was born as a result of a donor treatment procedure carried out using the donor's gametes;

(i) information about any other adverse consequence of disclosing identifying information from the Central Register;

If the applicant is a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure or a parent or guardian of a person born as a result of a donor treatment procedure, information about the possibility that the donor might regret they have donated.