SCHEDULE 2Minor and consequential amendments

The Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 9)

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1

The Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsections (1) and (5) of section 7 (actions for declarator), for the words “non-parentage, legitimacy, legitimation or illegitimacy”, in each place where they occur there shall be substituted “ or non-parentage ”.

3

In section 9 (savings and supplementary provisions)—

a

in paragraph (b) of subsection (1), at the beginning there shall be inserted “ subject to subsection (1A) below, ”; and

b

after that subsection, there shall be inserted—

1A

Subsections (1) and (2) of section 1 of this Act shall apply in relation to adopted children.