BASTARDY (BLOOD TESTS) BILL. [H.L.]

HL Deb 23 November 1938 vol 111 c137

LORD MERTHYR

My Lords, I beg leave to introduce a Bill to empower courts of summary jurisdiction to require an applicant for an affiliation order, her child, and the defendant to undergo blood tests, and for purposes connected therewith; and to move that it be read a first time.

Moved, That the Bill be now read 1^a.—(Lord Merthyr.)

On Question, Bill read 1^a, and to be printed.