Western Australian Current Acts

CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 136C

136C .         Parentage testing orders

        (1)         If the parentage of a child is a question in issue in protection proceedings, the Court may make an order requiring a parentage testing procedure to be conducted in relation to a person mentioned in subsection (3) for the purpose of obtaining information to assist in determining the parentage of the child.

        (2)         The Court may make a parentage testing order —

            (a)         on its own initiative; or

            (b)         on the application of a party.

        (3)         A parentage testing order may be made in relation to —

            (a)         the child; or

            (b)         a person known to be the mother of the child; or

            (c)         any other person, if the Court is of the opinion that, if the parentage testing procedure were conducted in relation to the person, the information that could be obtained might assist in determining the parentage of the child.

        (4)         A parentage testing order may be made subject to terms and conditions.

        (5)         This section does not limit the operation of section 136B.

        [Section 136C inserted: No. 49 of 2010 s. 36.]