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2(1)Section 1 of the 1953 Act (particulars of births required to be registered) is amended as follows.E+W

(2)In subsection (2), for paragraph (a) substitute—

(a)the mother of the child;

(aa)the father of the child where—

(i)the child is one whose father and mother were married to[F1, or civil partners of,] each other at the time of the child's birth, or

(ii)the father is a qualified informant by virtue of subsection (2)(a) of section 10 (registration of father where parents not married or of second female parent F2... [F3or] civil partners) or by virtue of regulations under subsection (6)(b) of section 2E (scientific tests);.

(3)For subsection (3) substitute—

(3)In subsection (2)(aa)—

(a)the first reference to the father is, in the case of a child who has a parent by virtue of section 42 or 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, to be read as a reference to the woman who is a parent by virtue of that section;

(b)the reference in sub-paragraph (ii) to the father being a qualified informant by virtue of section 10(2)(a) is, in the case of a child who has a parent by virtue of section 43 of that Act, to be read as a reference to that parent being a qualified informant by virtue of section 10(2A)(a).

(4)After subsection (3) insert—

(4)In this Part, references to a child whose father and mother were, or were not, married to[F4, or civil partners of,] each other at the time of the child's birth are to be read in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (which extends the cases in which a person is treated as being a person whose father and mother were married to[F4, or civil partners of,] each other at the time of the person's birth).

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