SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Amendments relating to parenthood in cases involving assisted reproduction

Part 1General

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (c. 20)

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1

Section 29A of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (alternative procedure for certain corrections) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) for the words from “the father” to the end substitute

—

a

the father of the person to whose birth or death the entry relates; or

b

a parent of that person (having been so registered on the basis of being such a parent by virtue of 42, 43 or 46(1) or (2) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008).

3

In subsection (3), after “not the father” insert “ or, as the case may be, that the person shown as a parent was not such a parent by virtue of 42, 43 or 46(1) or (2) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 ”.