Status of Children Act 2012 (NI)

NORFOLK ISLAND

Status of Children Act 2012

Act No. 12 of 2012

Table of Contents Status of Children Bill 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