Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978 - SECT 25

25 Parentage presumption arising from birth registration

(1) If, under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a prescribed overseas jurisdiction, a person is named as a child’s parent in a register of births or parentage information, the person is presumed to be the child’s parent.

(2) The presumption in subsection (1) is rebuttable.