Explanatory note

This Order brings certain provisions of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 into force on 1st January 1970, namely:—

Part I (which provides for the reduction of the age of majority from 21 to 18);

Part II (which makes provision for the property rights of illegitimate children); and

Part IV (which includes provisions about the rebuttal of the presumption as to legitimacy and illegitimacy, and the entry of father's names on the registration of birth of illegitimate children).