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Status of Children Act 2012 (NI)
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C2015Q00240
18 June 2015
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Status of Children Act 2012
Part 1 – Preliminary
1. Name of Act
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
4. Application of Act
Part 2 – Status of children and dispositions of property
5. All children are of equal status
6. Construction of dispositions of property made on or after the Commencement
7. Rights of exnuptial children and their relatives on intestacy
Part 3 – Establishing parentage
Division 1 – Parentage presumptions
8. Presumptions of parentage arising from marriage
9. Presumption of paternity arising from cohabitation
10. Presumptions of parentage arising from registration of birth
11. Presumption of parentage arising from findings of courts
12. Presumption of parentage arising from acknowledgments
13. Presumptions of parentage arising out of use of fertilisation procedures
14. Rebuttal of parentage presumptions
15. Conflicting rebuttable parentage presumptions
16. Conflicts involving irrebuttable parentage presumptions
17. Parentage presumptions cannot be relied on by prosecutors
Division 2 – Acknowledgments of paternity
18. Execution of instrument of acknowledgment
19. Annulment of paternity acknowledgments
Division 3 – Declarations of parentage
20. Applications for declarations in the Supreme Court
21. Annulment of declaration of parentage
Division 4 – Evidence of court findings and paternity acknowledgments
22. Admissibility of court findings and paternity acknowledgments
Division 5 – Hearings under Divisions 2 and 3
23. Conduct of hearings
24. Offence: publication of identity of participants in hearing
Division 6 – Parentage evidence
25. Orders for carrying out of parentage testing procedures
26. Orders associated with parentage testing orders
27. Orders made against children under 18 years of age
28. Effect of non-compliance by adult with an order made under this Part
29. No liability if parent or guardian consents
30. Reports on parentage testing procedures
31. Offence: Personating another in or proffering another child for a parentage testing procedure
32. Offence: Taking of bodily sample by unqualified persons
33. Court orders for separate representation of child
Part 4 – Miscellaneous
34. Proceedings for offences
35. Regulations