The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1025

EVIDENCE

The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1990

Made

8th May 1990

Laid before Parliament

11th May 1990

Coming into force

1st June 1990

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 22 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969(1), I hereby make the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st June 1990.

2.  For Schedule 2 to the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971(2) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

3.  Regulation 5 of and the Schedule to the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 1989(3) are hereby revoked.

David Waddington

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

8th May 1990

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Regulation 12

SCHEDULE 2 CHARGES MADE BY SAMPLERS

The charges that may be made by a sampler in respect of one direction requesting him to take samples shall be as follows–

	Charge from 1st June 1990 £	Charge before 1st June 1990 £
For making all necessary arrangements (whether or not samples are taken)	14.60	13.60
For making further arrangements (whether or not samples are taken) to give effect to a variation by the court of a direction	14.60	13.60
For taking sample–
from first subject	14.60	13.60
from each subject after first	7.30	6.80
For taking second or subsequent samples from one or more subject–
if one such sample	14.60	13.60
if two such samples	21.90	20.40
if three or more such samples	36.40	34.10

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase the charges which may be made by blood samplers under the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations 1971 in respect of blood tests carried out for the purpose of determining paternity in civil proceedings. These were last increased in May 1989 (S.I. 1989/776).

(1)

1969 c. 46.

(2)

S.I. 1971/1861, amended by S.I. 1989/776, 1990/359.

(3)

S.I. 1989/776.