New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1996 - SECT 11

11 Presumptions of parentage arising from registration of birth

(1) A person is presumed to be a child's parent if the person's name is entered as the child's parent in the Births, Deaths and Marriages Register or a register of births or parentage information kept under a law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory or a prescribed overseas jurisdiction.

(2) Nothing in this section affects the operation of Chapter 5 (Recognition of adoptions) of the Adoption Act 2000 .