South Australian assisted reproductive treatment (ART) providers (ART clinics) can access helpful resources about the Donor Conception Register (DCR) for their clients and patients, to support awareness of the South Australian ART law changes.
- DCR administrators: Authorised staff in SA Health, South Australian ART clinics and the Donor Conception Register Support Service (DCRSS) who maintain the DCR.
- DCR participants: People who can register to be a DCR user, but who have not yet done so.
- DCR users: DCR participants who have registered to access information held in the DCR about other DCR participants and DCR users linked to themselves (i.e. their connections).
- Parent’s donor(s): The donor (or two donors) linked to a parent’s donor conception treatment. This includes egg and sperm (i.e. gametes) donors.
- Retrospective or historical information: Information from donor conception treatments during or before September 2004.
- Your connections: DCR participants and DCR users who are either linked to the same donor (e.g. donor-conceived siblings) or are linked to the same donor conception treatment (e.g. a parent, donor and donor-conceived person).
Law changes and the South Australian DCR
The Government of South Australia changed South Australian ART (donor conception) laws on 26 February 2025, following significant public support.
South Australia is the first government agency in Australia to offer a publicly accessible online Donor Conception Register (DCR), and the second to provide donor-conceived people with the right to access information about their genetic heritage retrospectively.
Knowing one’s genetic heritage has many health and wellbeing benefits and can be lifechanging. It’s also the fundamental human right of every person, regardless of how or when they were conceived.
The DCR allows DCR participants who register as DCR users, to update their own information and also access information about their connections. This supports donor-conceived people accessing information about their parent’s donor(s), before September 2004 and right back to the 1970s, where that information is available.
To find out more visit:
- About the DCR
- Accessing the DCR
- Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 1988
- Assisted Reproductive Treatment Regulations 2024.
Resources for ART providers
To learn more about who can register and what information they can access, visit:
- DCR Access Matrix 1 – for donors (PDF 234KB)
- DCR Access Matrix 2 – for donor-conceived people (PDF 238KB)
- DCR Access Matrix 3 – for the parent(s) of a donor-conceived child (PDF 273KB)
- DCR Access Matrix 4 – for the parent(s) of a donor-conceived adult (PDF 222KB).
Other donor conception resources are available below for promoting in your clinic, to help you support client and patient awareness about donor conception law changes.
- DL (trifold) brochure (PDF 282KB)
- A3 posters:
- A4 posters:
- TV screens:
- Social media images:
- Email banner (JPG 83KB)
- Website banner (JPG 50KB)
- Newsletter image (JPG 103KB)
SA Health information
The SA Health website provides additional information for ART clinics:
- Assisted Reproductive Treatment – Registration Application Form
- Assisted reproductive treatment providers
- Registration as an ART provider
- Fact Sheet: ART Provider Registration Scheme in South Australia
- Assisted Reproductive Treatment Provider Register
- Disclaimer for Assisted Reproductive Treatment information.