HC Deb 19 May 1986 vol 98 c133
Mr. Major

I beg to move amendment No. 63, in page 29, line 32, leave out 'subsection' and insert 'subsections (2), (3) and

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this it will be convenient to consider Government amendments Nos. 64 to 67 and 135.

Mr. Major

Amendment No. 63 and the related amendments in this particular grouping are consequential amendments stemming from the passage of the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986. The effect of the Scottish Act is to remove the legal differences between legitimate and illegitimate children without conferring parental rights automatically on the fathers of all illegitimate children. I do not propose to deal with the contents of that Act. I shall say no more than that these amendments amend the Bill to take account of changes in the law in Scotland which deal with illegitimacy.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment made: No. 64, in page 29, line 35, at end insert— '(9) On an application under subsection (1) above a court in Scotland may make a finding as to the parentage of a child for the purpose of establishing whether a person is, for the purposes of this section and section 25 below, liable to maintain him.'. —[Mr. Newton.]

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