New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1996 - SECT 23

23 Admissibility of court findings and paternity acknowledgments

(1) In any proceedings in which the parentage of a child is in issue and a presumption under section 12 or 13 is relied on, the finding of the prescribed court or the paternity acknowledgment (or a copy of any such instrument that the court considers authentic) giving rise to the presumption is to be admitted in evidence in those proceedings.

(2) In any proceedings in which the parentage of a child is in issue, the court before which the proceedings are taken may admit any evidence that tends to establish that a person is or is not a parent of the child even though that evidence is not required to be admitted by virtue of subsection (1).

(3) However, subsection (2) does not apply so as to allow the admission of evidence in rebuttal of an irrebuttable presumption of law arising by virtue of this or any other Act or any rule of law.