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STATUS OF CHILDREN (ASSISTED REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY)
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procedure done in Singapore if he gives or withdraws his consent, as the case may be, to the fertilisation procedure—
(i) in writing, and
(ii) in accordance with any law or any condition imposed pursuant to any law, or any requirement or procedure imposed by the responsible authority, in respect of that fertilisation procedure.

Person who provided egg or sperm not to be treated as parent

5. Except as determined under this Act, where a child is brought about as a result of a fertilisation procedure—

(a) the woman whose egg the child was brought about with shall not be treated as the mother of the child; and
(b) the man whose sperm the child was brought about with shall not be treated as the father of the child.

Gestational mother treated as mother

6. Subject to section 9, where a woman has carried a child as a result of a fertilisation procedure, the woman shall be treated as the mother of the child from the date of the birth of the child, whether she was in Singapore or elsewhere at the time she underwent the fertilisation procedure.

Husband treated as father

7.—(1) Subject to subsection (7), where—

(a) a gestational mother was married at the time she underwent a fertilisation procedure as a result of which she carried a child, or was married at any time thereafter; and
(b) the child was brought about with the sperm of her husband in that marriage, her husband in that marriage shall be treated as the father of the child from the date of the birth of the child or the date of the marriage, whichever is the later.