STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1996 - As at 15 June 2018 - Act 76 of 1996
- As at 15 June 2018
- Act 76 of 1996
Table of Provisions
PART 1 - PRELIMINARY
- 1 Name of Act
- 2 Commencement
- 3 Definitions
- 4 Application of Act
PART 2 - STATUS OF CHILDREN AND DISPOSITIONS OF PROPERTY
- 5 All children are of equal status
- 6 Construction of dispositions of property made on or after 1 July 1977
- 7 Construction of dispositions of property made before 1 July 1977
- 8 Rights of exnuptial children and their relatives on intestacy
PART 3 - ESTABLISHING PARENTAGE
Division 1 - Parentage presumptions
- 9 Presumptions of parentage arising from marriage
- 10 Presumption of paternity arising from cohabitation
- 11 Presumptions of parentage arising from registration of birth
- 12 Presumption of parentage arising from findings of courts
- 13 Presumption of parentage arising from acknowledgments
- 14 Presumptions of parentage arising out of use of fertilisation procedures
- 15 Rebuttal of parentage presumptions
- 16 Conflicting rebuttable parentage presumptions
- 17 Conflicts involving irrebuttable parentage presumptions
- 18 Parentage presumptions cannot be relied on by prosecutors
Division 2 - Acknowledgments of paternity
- 19 Execution of instrument of acknowledgment
- 20 Annulment of paternity acknowledgments
Division 3 - Declarations of parentage
Division 4 - Evidence of court findings and paternity acknowledgments
- 23 Admissibility of court findings and paternity acknowledgments
Division 5 - Hearings under Divisions 2 and 3
- 24 Conduct of hearings
- 25 Offence: publication of identity of participants in hearing
Division 6 - Parentage evidence
PART 4 - MISCELLANEOUS
- 35 Proceedings for offences
- 36 Regulations
- 37 Repeal of Children (Equality of Status) Act 1976 No 97 and Artificial Conception Act 1984 No 3
38. (Repealed)
- 39 Savings and transitional provisions
- 40 Review of Act
Schedule 1 (Repealed)