The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 1369

EVIDENCE

The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 1992

Made

5th June 1992

Laid before Parliament

10th June 1992

Coming into force

1st July 1992

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969(1), and now vested in him(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st July 1992.

2.  For Schedule 2 to the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971(3) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Mackay of Clashfern,

5th June 1992

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Regulation 12

“SCHEDULE 2 CHARGES MADE BY SAMPLERS

The charges that may be made by a sampler in respect of one direction requesting him to take samples shall be as follows:

	Charge from: 1st July £	Charge before: 1st July 1992 £4
For making all necessary arrangements (whether or not samples are taken)	17.40	16.50
For making further arrangements (whether or not samples are taken) to give effect to a variation by the court of a direction	17.40	16.50
For taking sample—
from first subject	17.40	16.50
from each subject after first	8.70	8.20
For taking second or subsequent samples from one or more subjects—
if one such sample	17.40	16.50
if two such samples	26.10	24.70
if three or more such samples	43.50	41.20”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase the charges which may be made by blood samplers under the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971 in respect of blood tests carried out for the purpose of determining paternity in civil proceedings. These charges are based upon increases in medical fees proposed by the Doctors and Dentists Review Body and accepted by Her Majesty’s Government. They were last increased in December 1991(S.I. 1991/2472).

(1)

1969 c. 46.

(2)

S.I. 1992/709, article 3 and Schedule 2.

(3)

S.I. 1971/1861. Schedule 2 was substituted by S.I. 1991/2472.