Singapore legislation

Regulation 39

of Healthcare Services (Assisted Reproduction Service) Regulations 2023

Regulation 39

Evaluation of donors

Subregulation 1

A licensee must establish and implement a system to evaluate the medical fitness and suitability of every donor of a reproductive cell or an embryo before the reproductive cell or embryo is accepted for use in the provision of the assisted reproduction service.

Subregulation 2

Without limiting paragraph (1), the system mentioned in that paragraph must include the following:

(a)

the conduct of a clinical evaluation and the review of the medical history of the donor, carried out by a qualified assisted reproduction practitioner;

(b)

the signing of a written declaration by each donor, to the best of the donor’s knowledge, of the following matters:

(i)

information relating to the donor’s medical history;

(ii)

whether the donor has engaged in behaviour that exposes the donor to a high risk of contracting or developing communicable diseases, including drug use and unprotected sex with multiple partners.