Family Relationships (Parentage Presumptions) Amendment Bill

Final Stages

The House of Assembly agreed to the bill with the amendments indicated by the following schedule, to which amendments the House of Assembly desires the concurrence of the Legislative Council:

New Schedule, page 3, before line 13—Insert:

Schedule A1—Related amendment to Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996

1—Amendment of section 14—How to have the birth of a child registered

Section 14—-after its present contents (now to be designated as subsection (1)) insert:

(2) The birth registration statement must include particulars of the identity (if known) of the biological parents of the child.

(3) The fact that a person is described as a biological parent of a child in a birth registration statement in accordance with subsection (2), or in an entry about the birth in the Register—

(a) does not constitute an acknowledgement of parentage for the purposes of the Family Relationships Act 1975 or any other law; and

(b) does not otherwise operate to make that person the mother or father of the child for the purposes of any other law.

(4) In this section—

biological parents, in relation to the birth of a child, means—

(a) the person who provided semen resulting in the birth; and

(b) the person who provided the ovum resulting in the birth.

(5) Subsections (2), (3) and (4) expire on the day on which the donor conception register is established under section 15 of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 1988.

Amendment No 2 Long title—

After 'Family Relationships Act 1975' insert:

; and to make a related amendment to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996