CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 136D

CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 136D

136D .         Orders associated with parentage testing orders

        (1)         If the Court makes a parentage testing order, it may also make orders under subsection (2) or (4).

        (2)         The Court may make any orders that it considers necessary or desirable —

            (a)         to enable the parentage testing procedure to be conducted; or

            (b)         to make the parentage testing procedure more effective or reliable.

        (3)         Some examples of the kinds of orders the Court may make under subsection (2) are as follows —

            (a)         an order requiring a person to submit to a medical procedure;

            (b)         an order requiring a person to provide a bodily sample;

            (c)         an order requiring a person to provide information relevant to the person’s medical or family history.

        (4)         The Court may make any orders that it considers just in relation to costs incurred in relation to —

            (a)         conducting the parentage testing procedure or other orders made by the Court in relation to the parentage testing procedure; or

            (b)         the preparation of reports relating to the information obtained as a result of conducting the parentage testing procedure.

        [Section 136D inserted: No. 49 of 2010 s. 36.]