In section 18 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (succession on intestacy), after subsection (2) insert—
“(2ZA)Subsection (2) does not apply if a person is recorded as the intestate's father, or as a parent (other than the mother) of the intestate—
(a)in a register of births kept (or having effect as if kept) under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, or
(b)in a record of a birth included in an index kept under section 30(1) of that Act (indexes relating to certain other registers etc).”
Commencement Information
I1S. 5 in force at 1.10.2014 by S.I. 2014/2039, art. 2