Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1978

- As at 4 April 2016 
- Act 30 of 1978 

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   1A.     (Repealed)
   2.      Application of Act
   3.      Act binds all persons
   4.      Definitions
   5.      Meaning of parentage testing procedure

   PART 2 - STATUS OF CHILDREN

   6.      All children to be of equal status
   7.      Protection of executors, administrators and trustees
   8.      Recognition of paternity
   9.      Filing of certain instruments with registrar-general
   10.     Declaration of parentage
   11.     Order requiring evidence to be given about paternity or parentage testing procedure to be carried out
   12.     Parentage testing procedure reports
   13.     Inadmissibility of acknowledgement of paternity or certified copy as evidence in criminal proceedings

   PART 3 - PARENTAGE OF CHILDREN

           Division 1 - Application

   14.     Application

           Division 2 - Parentage presumptions of children conceived by fertilisation procedures

              Subdivision 1 - Interpretation

   15.     Interpretation for div 2

              Subdivision 2 - Fertilisation procedures—married women with husband’s consent

   16.     Application of sdiv 2
   17.     Artificial insemination—Presumption as to status
   18.     Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor semen used
   19.     Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor ovum used

              Subdivision 2A - Fertilisation procedures—women with female de facto partner’s consent

   19A.    Interpretation
   19B.    Application of sdiv 2A
   19C.    Artificial insemination—Presumption as to status
   19D.    Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor semen used
   19E.    Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor ovum used
   19F.    Irrebuttable presumptions
   19G.    Presumption without consent

              Subdivision 3 - Fertilisation procedures—other married women and unmarried women

   20.     Application of sdiv 3
   21.     Artificial insemination
   22.     Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor semen used
   23.     Implantation procedure—Presumption as to status where donor ovum used

           Division 3 - Other parentage presumptions

   24.     Parentage presumptions arising from marriage
   25.     Parentage presumption arising from birth registration
   26.     Parentage presumption arising from court finding
   27.     Paternity presumption arising from acknowledgements
   28.     Paternity presumption arising from cohabitation

           Division 4 - Other provisions about presumptions

   29.     Rebuttal of presumptions
   30.     Resolution of conflicting presumptions

   PART 4 - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

   31.     Approval of forms
   32.     Regulation-making power

   PART 5 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

           Division 1 - Transitional provisions for Status of Children Act 1978

   33.     Documents executed before commencement of Act
   34.     Intestacies taking place before commencement of Act

           Division 2 - Transitional provision for Status of Children Amendment Act 2001

   35.     Proceedings

           Division 3 - Transitional provisions for Surrogacy Act 2010

   36.     Parentage presumption of children conceived by particular fertilisation procedures occurring before commencement
   37.     Parentage presumption of children conceived by particular fertilisation procedures occurring before commencement for women with female de facto partner