Section 60HB — Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)

Children born under surrogacy arrangements

(1) If a court has made an order under a prescribed law of a State or Territory to the effect that:

(a) a child is the child of one or more persons; or

(b) each of one or more persons is a parent of a child;

then, for the purposes of this Act, the child is the child of each of those persons.

(2) In this section:

this Act includes the applicable Rules of Court.

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation at 26 May 2026. For the latest information on Australian Government law please go to https://www.legislation.gov.au. Verify the current text against the official source before relying on it.

Related sections

s 60G — Leave may be granted for adoption proceedings by prescribed adopting parent
s 60H — Children born as a result of artificial conception procedures
s 60HA — Children of de facto partners
s 60I — Attending family dispute resolution before applying for Part VII order
s 60J — Family dispute resolution not attended because of child abuse or family violence
s 61A — What this Division does

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