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STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978
- As at 24 June 2024
- Act 30 of 1978
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
PART 1 - PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
1A. (Repealed)
2. Application of Act
3. Act binds all persons
4. Definitions
5. Meaning of parentage testing procedure
PART 2 - STATUS OF CHILDREN
6. All children to be of equal status
7. Protection of executors, administrators and trustees
8. Recognition of paternity
9. Filing of certain instruments with registrar-general
10. Declaration of parentage
11. Order requiring evidence to be given about paternity or parentage testing procedure to be carried out
12. Parentage testing procedure reports
13. Inadmissibility of acknowledgement of paternity or certified copy as evidence in criminal proceedings
PART 3 - PARENTAGE OF CHILDREN
Division 1 - Application
14. Application
Division 2 - Parentage presumptions of children conceived by fertilisation procedures
Subdivision 1 - Interpretation
15. Interpretation for div 2
Subdivision 2 - Fertilisation procedures—married women with husband’s consent
16. Application of sdiv 2
17. Artificial insemination—Presumption as to status
18. Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor semen used
19. Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor ovum used
Subdivision 2A - Fertilisation procedures—women with female de facto partner’s consent
19A. Interpretation
19B. Application of sdiv 2A
19C. Artificial insemination—Presumption as to status
19D. Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor semen used
19E. Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor ovum used
19F. Irrebuttable presumptions
19G. Presumption without consent
Subdivision 3 - Fertilisation procedures—other married women and unmarried women
20. Application of sdiv 3
21. Artificial insemination
22. Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor semen used
23. Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor ovum used
Division 3 - Other parentage presumptions
24. Parentage presumptions arising from marriage
25. Parentage presumption arising from birth registration
26. Parentage presumption arising from court finding
27. Paternity presumption arising from acknowledgements
28. Paternity presumption arising from cohabitation
Division 4 - Other provisions about presumptions
29. Rebuttal of presumptions
30. Resolution of conflicting presumptions
PART 4 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
31. Approval of forms
32. Regulation-making power
PART 5 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Division 1 - Transitional provisions for Status of Children Act 1978
33. Documents executed before commencement of Act
34. Intestacies taking place before commencement of Act
Division 2 - Transitional provision for Status of Children Amendment Act 2001
35. Proceedings
Division 3 - Transitional provisions for Surrogacy Act 2010
36. Parentage presumption of children conceived by particular fertilisation procedures occurring before commencement
37. Parentage presumption of children conceived by particular fertilisation procedures occurring before commencement for women with female de facto partner
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