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Family Proceedings Act 1980

Children - Parentage tests in civil proceedings

59: Offences relating to parentage tests

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"Breaking the law when lying about who a child's parents are"

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If you pretend to be someone else to give a blood sample or buccal sample for a parentage test, you can get in trouble. You can also get in trouble if you try to trick people by saying a child is someone they are not, when you know the results will be used in a court case about who the child's parents are. You could be fined up to $1,000 if you do something like this.

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Parentage tests in civil proceedings

59Offences relating to parentage tests

  1. Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 who, for the purpose of the providing of a blood sample or buccal sample for a parentage test, the results of which that person knows are intended to be used in any civil proceedings in which the natural parentage of a child is in issue,—

  2. personates any other person; or
    1. with intent to deceive, proffers a child that is not the child whose natural parentage is in issue in the proceedings.

      Notes
      • Section 59 heading: amended, on , by section 150 of the Care of Children Act 2004 (2004 No 90).
      • Section 59: amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).
      • Section 59: amended, on , by section 150 of the Care of Children Act 2004 (2004 No 90).