STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   2A.     Application to persons  
   3.      Interpretation  

   PART II--STATUS OF CHILDREN

   4.      Determination of relationship  
   4A.     Presumptions arising from marriage  
   5.      Presumptions of paternity arising from cohabitation  

   PART IIIA--CHILDREN CONCEIVED FOLLOWING MEDICAL PROCEDURES

   5A.     Interpretation  
   5B.     Application of Part  
   5C.     Rule relating to maternity  
   5D.     Rule relating to paternity  
   5DA.    Rule relating to parentage – female de facto partners  
   5E.     Donor of ovum  
   5F.     Status of sperm donor  

   PART III--DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY

   6.      Instruments  
   7.      Persons dealing with property  
   8.      Recognition of paternity  

   PART IV--ESTABLISHMENT OF PATERNITY AND MATERNITY

   9.      Presumptions of parentage arising from registration of birth  
   9A.     Presumptions of paternity arising from acknowledgments  
   9B.     Parentage arising from findings of courts  
   10.     Instruments filed with district Registrar  
   11.     Paternity  
   12.     Maternity  

   PART V--PARENTAGE TESTING

   13.     Medical procedures to determine parentage  
   14.     Matters to be taken into account in making determination  
   15.     Reports of medical procedure  

   PART VI--MISCELLANEOUS

   16.     Presumptions of law  
   17.     Closed courts  
   18.     Regulations  
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