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South Australia
Family Relationships (Parentage Presumptions) Amendment
Bill 2015
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Family
Relationships Act 1975
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Family
Relationships Act 1975
4Amendment to section 10B—Application of
Part
5Amendment of section 10C—Rules relating to
parentage
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Family Relationships (Parentage
Presumptions) Amendment Act 2015.
This Act will come into operation 3 months after the day on which it
is assented to by the Governor.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Family Relationships
Act 1975
4—Amendment
to section 10B—Application of Part
Section 10B—after subsection (1) insert:
(2) Despite any other provision of this Part, the amendments to this Part
effected by the
Family
Relationships (Parentage Presumptions) Amendment Act 2015
only apply in relation to a fertilisation procedure carried out after the
commencement of that Act.
5—Amendment
of section 10C—Rules relating to parentage
Section 10C—after subsection (3) insert:
(a) a woman is living with another person (her partner) in a
marriage-like relationship (whether they are of the same or opposite sex);
and
(b) the woman undergoes, with the consent of her partner, a fertilisation
procedure in consequence of which she becomes pregnant; and
(c) the woman and her partner elect, in accordance with the requirements
prescribed by the regulations, to have the parentage of any child born as a
result of the pregnancy determined in accordance with this subsection,
then, for the purposes of the law of the State, the woman's
partner—
(d) will be conclusively presumed to have caused the pregnancy;
and
(e) will be taken to be—
(i) in the case of a male partner—the father; or
(ii) in any other case—a co-parent,
of any child born as a result of the pregnancy.