Donor conception
The Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008 (ART Act) provides donors, recipients, and donor conceived people the right to access information about each other from the Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages.
The ART Act requires that counselling is provided to people seeking access to this information.
FIND has counsellors who provide information to individuals who are referred to us by the Victorian Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages (BDM) and only for the purpose of providing information about the potential consequences of disclosure of information.
BDM manage the Central Register and Voluntary Registers in accordance with the Act. These registers may contain identifying and non-identifying information that can be released to donor conceived people and their parents, donors, and in the case of information on the Voluntary Register, to the relatives of these people. Applications for information from these registers can be made by completing the relevant application form.
Application forms and further information is available at BDM website in the Other Government Services section.
Contact Information
Family Information Network and Discovery (FIND)
Level 20
570 Bourke Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Tel: (03) 8608 5700 or
Local call: 1300 769 926
