This is the original version (as it was originally enacted).
9In the Marriage Act 1949 for the words "an infant", wherever they occur in section 3, 16 or 28 or in Schedule 2, there shall be substituted the words "a child" and for the words "the infant", wherever they occur in section 3 or in Schedule 2, there shall be substituted the words "the child".
10In section 78 of that Act—
(a)in subsection (1) for the definition of "infant" there shall be substituted the following definition—
“'child' means a person under the age of eighteen;”;
(b)after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(1A)References in this Act to the parents of a child being or not being married to each other at the time of his birth shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987.”
11In Schedule 2 to that Act for the heading to Part I there shall be substituted the following heading—
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