Schedules

Schedule 6Registration of births

Part 2Other amendments

Children Act 1989 (c. 41)

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1

Section 4 of the Children Act 1989 (acquisition of parental responsibility by father) is amended as follows.

2

At the beginning of subsection (1)(a) insert “ except where subsection (1C) applies, ”.

3

In subsection (1A), after paragraph (a) insert—

aa

regulations under section 2C, 2D, 2E, 10B or 10C of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953;

4

After subsection (1B) insert—

1C

The father of a child does not acquire parental responsibility by virtue of subsection (1)(a) if, before he became registered as the child's father under the enactment in question—

a

the court considered an application by him for an order under subsection (1)(c) in relation to the child but did not make such an order, or

b

in a case where he had previously acquired parental responsibility for the child, the court ordered that he was to cease to have that responsibility.