Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   1A.     Application of Act
   1B.     Act binds all persons
   2.      Definitions
   2A.     Meaning of parentage testing procedure

           Part 2--Status of children

   3.      All children to be of equal status
   6.      Protection of executors, administrators and trustees
   7.      Recognition of paternity
   9.      Filing of certain instruments with Registrar-General
   10.     Declaration of paternity
   11.     Order requiring evidence to be given about paternity or parentage testing procedure to be carried out
   11A.    Parentage testing procedure reports
   12.     Inadmissibility of acknowledgment 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

   14A.    Interpretation for div 2
   15.     Artificial insemination—Presumption as to status
   16.     Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor semen used
   17.     Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor ovum used
   18.     Donor of semen used in artificial insemination of certain women

           Division 3--Other parentage presumptions

   18A.    Parentage presumptions arising from marriage
   18B.    Parentage presumption arising from birth registration
   18C.    Parentage presumption arising from court finding
   18D.    Paternity presumption arising from acknowledgments
   18E.    Paternity presumption arising from cohabitation

           Division 4--Other provisions about presumptions

   18F.    Rebuttal of presumptions
   18G.    Resolution of conflicting presumptions

           Part 4--Miscellaneous provisions

   19.     Approval of forms
   20.     Regulation-making power
   21.     Numbering and renumbering of Act

           Part 5--Transitional provisions

           Division 1--Transitional provisions for Status of Children Act 1978

   22.     Documents executed before commencement of Act
   23.     Intestacies taking place before commencement of Act

           Division 2--Transitional provision for Status of Children Amendment Act 2001

   24.     Proceedings
           Endnotes