Succession Act 2006
109ASurrogacy arrangements
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109A Surrogacy arrangements
109A Surrogacy arrangements
(1) A child of a surrogacy arrangement in respect of whom a parentage order is made is to be regarded, for the purposes of distribution on an intestacy, as a child of the intended parent or parents named in the parentage order and—
(a) the child’s family relationships are to be determined accordingly, and
(b) family relationships that exist as a matter of biological fact, and are not consistent with the relationship created by parentage order, are to be ignored.
(2) In this section, a parentage order means a parentage order, or an Interstate parentage order, within the meaning of the Surrogacy Act 2010.
s 109A: Ins 2010 No 102, Sch 2.8.