SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 U.K. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

The Marriage Act 1949 (c.76) E+W

10 E+W In 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.”