Family Law Amendment Act (No. 72 of 1983), 28 October 1983.
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."
D001315:Australia; D019049:Developed Countries; D004624:Embryo Transfer; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D007315:Insemination, Artificial; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008393:Marriage; D010139:Pacific Islands; D012098:Reproduction; D012099:Reproductive Techniques
Artificial Insemination--legal aspects; Australia; Developed Countries; Embryo Transfer--legal aspects; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Filiation--legal aspects; Laws And Statutes; Marriage--legal aspects; Nuptiality; Oceania; Reproduction; Reproductive Technologies--legal aspects