Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 U.K. MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

The Marriage Act 1949 (c.76) E+W

9 E+W In the Marriage Act 1949 for the words “an infant”, wherever they occur in section 3, 16 or 28 or in Schedule 2, there shall be substituted the words “ a child ” and for the words “the infant”, wherever they occur in section 3 or in Schedule 2, there shall be substituted the words “ the child ”.

10 E+W In section 78 of that Act—

(a) in subsection (1) for the definition of “infant” there shall be substituted the following definition—

““child” means a person under the age of eighteen;”;

(b) after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(1A) References in this Act to the parents of a child being or not being married to each other at the time of his birth shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987.”

F1 11 E+W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 para. 11 repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108, Sch.15 (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)