{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2001/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/773",
  "legislation_title": "The Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/blood-tests-evidence-of-paternity-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Blood Tests (Evidence of Paternity) Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 6—\n(a) in paragraph (2), delete the words from “unless the direction form” to the end;\n(b) delete paragraph (4);\n(c) at the end of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (5), add “; or”, and add the following new sub-paragraph—\n“(c) where he is under the age of sixteen years, and the person with care and control of him does not consent, the court has nevertheless ordered that a sample be taken.”;\n(d) in paragraph (8), delete “and by that subject or, if he is under a disability, the person accompanying him”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/773/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:58:48.513944+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}