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Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Parental rights and duties: general
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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Family Law Reform Act 1987, Cross Heading: Parental rights and duties: general.
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Parental rights and duties: generalE+W
2 Construction of enactments relating to parental rights and duties.E+W
(1)In the following enactments, namely—
(a)section 42(1) of the National Assistance Act 1948;
(b)section 6 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969;
(c)the Guardianship of Minors Act 1971 (in this Act referred to as “the 1971 Act”);
(d)Part I of the Guardianship Act 1973 (in this Act referred to as “the 1973 Act”);
(e)Part II of the Children Act 1975;
(f)the Child Care Act 1980 except Part I and sections 13, 24, 64 and 65;
(g). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
references (however expressed) to any relationship between two persons shall be construed in accordance with section 1 above.
(2)In subsection (7) of section 1 of the 1973 Act (equality of parental rights) for the words from “or be taken” to the end there shall be substituted the words “ and nothing in subsection (1) above shall be taken as applying in relation to a child whose father and mother were not married to each other at the time of his birth ”.
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