New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsStatute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2012
Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Status of
Children Act 1996.
Attorney General
The object of this Regulation is to remake, with some changes, the provisions of the Status of Children Regulation
2003, which is to be repealed by section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989 on 1 September 2008.
This Regulation makes provision with respect to the following:
(a) parentage testing procedures and reports on such procedures,
(b) the form in which an acknowledgment of paternity is to be made and the persons who may witness such an acknowledgment,
(c) the persons (in addition to those specified in section 21 (1) of the Status of Children Act 1996) who can apply to the Supreme Court for declarations of parentage,
(d) matters of a savings and transitional nature.The new Regulation removes certain requirements that are not consistent with the Family Law Regulations 1984 of the Commonwealth. This Regulation is made under the Status of Children Act 1996, including the definition of "parentage testing procedure" in section 3 (1) and sections 19 (1) (a) and (b), 21 (1) (e), 33 (2) (c) and 36 (the general regulation-making power).
The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:
| Am | amended | LW | legislation website | Sch | Schedule | |
| Cl | clause | No | number | Schs | Schedules | |
| Cll | clauses | p | page | Sec | section | |
| Div | Division | pp | pages | Secs | sections | |
| Divs | Divisions | Reg | Regulation | Subdiv | Subdivision | |
| GG | Government Gazette | Regs | Regulations | Subdivs | Subdivisions | |
| Ins | inserted | Rep | repealed | Subst | substituted |