The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages manages the Central Register and Voluntary Register under the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008 (ART Act).

These registers record information about the people who are connected to assisted reproductive treatment (ART), such as:

• the donor/s
• the woman who underwent treatment using donated gametes (i.e. egg or sperm) or a donated embryo, and her partner (if any)
• the donor conceived person.

Information held on the registers may include details such as full name, date of birth and medical history.

The registered clinic or doctor who provides the donor treatment procedure supplies the information for the Central Register to the Registry.

Eligible people may choose to lodge information for the Voluntary Register to the Registry.

The ART Act outlines conditions for access to information held in the registers, including who can apply for access and what information may be released.

Find out who can apply and how to apply to access information on the Central Register.

Find out who can lodge or apply for information, and how to apply to access information on the Voluntary Register.

You can find more information about the donor registers in the ART FAQs.

Background: Donor treatment registers Read more about the history of the donor treatment registers in Victoria. (PDF document, 35 KB, 2 pages) Adding birth details Find out how to add a mother's female partner to an existing birth record. Self–insemination Read more about registering a birth resulting from self–insemination. Surrogacy Read more about births resulting from a surrogacy arrangement and how to add the surrogate parents' details to a birth record.