Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978 - SECT 6

6 All children to be of equal status

(1) For all the purposes of the law of the State, the relationship between every person and the person’s father and mother shall be determined irrespective of whether the father and mother are or have been married to each other and all other relationships shall be determined accordingly.

(2) The rule of construction whereby in a document, in the absence of a contrary expression of intention, words of relationship signify only legitimate relationship is abolished.

(3) For the purpose of construing a document, the use, with reference to relationship of a person, of the word ‘legitimate’ or ‘lawful’ shall not of itself prevent the relationship from being determined in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) .