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FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS ACT 1975 - SECT 10D

10D—Rule relating to paternity

        (1)         Where a married woman undergoes, with the consent of her husband, a fertilisation procedure in consequence of which she becomes pregnant, then, for the purposes of the law of the State, the husband

            (a)         shall be conclusively presumed to have caused the pregnancy; and

            (b)         is the father of any child born as a result of the pregnancy.

        (2)         In every case in which it is necessary to determine whether a husband consented to his wife undergoing a fertilisation procedure, that consent shall be presumed, but the presumption is rebuttable.



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