LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

of January 7, 2012 No. 341-Z

About auxiliary reproductive technologies

Accepted by the House of Representatives on December 19, 2011

Approved by Council of the Republic on December 20, 2011

This Law is directed to determination of legal and organizational basis of use of auxiliary reproductive technologies and providing the rights of citizens in case of their application.

Chapter 1. Basic provisions

Article 1. The main terms applied in this Law and their determinations

For the purposes of this Law the following main terms and their determinations are applied:

auxiliary reproductive technologies – methods of delivery of health care in case of which separate or all stages of conception and (or) early development of embryo (embryos) before its transfer in uterus are performed in vitro;

genetic mother – the woman with whose participation of gamete the embryo was formed and which carrier of genotype is future child;

the donor of gametes (further, unless otherwise specified, – the donor) – person which is voluntarily providing the gametes;

donorship of gametes – voluntary provision by the donor of the gametes;

artificial insemination – the type of auxiliary reproductive technologies consisting in introduction of men's gametes in uterus in the artificial way;

cryopreservation – freezing of gametes, embryos;

gametes – spermatozoa (at men), ova (at women);

relatives – the persons who are in natural cognation, having general ancestors to the great-grandfather and the great-grandmother inclusive;

substitute mother – the woman who under the agreement of surrogacy bears and gives birth to the child, not being the carrier of its genotype;

surrogacy – the type of auxiliary reproductive technologies consisting in connection of spermatozoon and the ovum withdrawn from organism of genetic mother, or donor ovum out of the woman's organism, development of the embryo formed as a result of this connection, further transfer of this embryo in uterus of substitute mother, incubation and the birth by it the child;

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