Reviews and appeals

27F1Applications for declaration of parentage under Family Law Act 1986.

1

This section applies where—

a

an application for a maintenance calculation has been made (or is treated as having been made), or a maintenance calculation is in force, with respect to a person (“the alleged parent”) who denies that he is a parent of a child with respect to whom the application or calculation was made or treated as made;

b

the Secretary of State is not satisfied that the case falls within one of those set out in section 26(2); and

c

the Secretary of State or the person with care makes an application for a declaration under section 55A of the Family Law Act 1986 as to whether or not the alleged parent is one of the child’s parents.

2

Where this section applies—

a

if it is the person with care who makes the application, she shall be treated as having a sufficient personal interest for the purposes of subsection (3) of that section; and

b

if it is the Secretary of State who makes the application, that subsection shall not apply.

3

This section does not apply to Scotland.