Who can learn an egg donor’s identity

NSW New South Wales

Anyone born from donated sperm, eggs or embryos after 1 January 2010 can apply for identifying information about their donor once they turn 18, apart from a small number covered by the Act’s transitional provisions. Before then, parents can apply for non-identifying information, and identifying information can be given to them only in special circumstances, such as a medical emergency or a life threatening situation. Where disclosure is thought necessary to prevent serious damage to a child’s psychological health, NSW Health says a registered medical practitioner with mental health expertise, or a registered psychologist, must first certify in writing that the damage is likely.

For people conceived before 2010, “accessible information” is non-identifying information about the donor’s ethnicity and physical characteristics, the donor’s relevant medical history, and the sex and year of birth of each of the donor’s offspring. Identifying information is released only where the donor has put it on the Central Register voluntarily and consented.

SA South Australia

A donor-conceived adult can use the register if born from a donor conception treatment in South Australia, with the birth registered with the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages office. Among the information they are entitled to are the donor’s name and date of birth, and the donor’s contact information only with the donor’s consent. One of the regulations’ restrictions is that access to a residential address is not to be given.

For donations made on or before 30 September 2004, the regulations allow 90 days for the donor to be told before the name and date of birth are released, subject to regulation 13(3). SA Health says the donor can waive that period, or ask for a further 90 days.

WA Western Australia

Section 49(2d) of the Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991 lets information covered by section 49(1)(a) “be divulged or communicated to a child resulting from the donation who has reached 16 years of age and who has completed approved counselling”. That applies only where the donation was made on or after the day the Human Reproductive Technology Amendment Act 2004 came into operation, or, for an earlier donation, where the donor’s effective consent to its use was given on or after that day, or the CEO is satisfied the donor was adequately informed, before donating, that future changes in the law might let the information reach the child without the donor’s consent.

As HealthyWA’s page gave it on 9 October 2026, the Department of Health processes requests for identifying and non-identifying donor information in about 8 weeks.

QLD Queensland

Under section 48 of the Assisted Reproductive Technology Act 2024, the people listed in the section’s table may apply to the registrar for the information set against them, or for information about themselves. A person can tell the registrar they do not consent to their information going to any applicant. If a donor-conceived person asks for a donor’s contact information and the donor has not consented, the registrar may try to contact the donor to give them the chance to, unless the donor has given that notice. Queensland Health places the register in stage 3 of the Act’s staged start, throughout 2026.

VIC Victoria

Section 59 of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008 has the Donor Conception Registrar disclose identifying information to a person born from a donor treatment procedure who applies, subject to Division 3A, if the applicant is an adult, or a child who meets section 59(b): a parent’s or guardian’s consent to the application, or counselling by a Part 6 counsellor, together with, at least on the counselling route, the counsellor’s statement to the Registrar that the child is mature enough to understand what disclosure will mean; Victoria’s Department of Health explains how.