{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1969/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1969/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/46",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Reform Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1969",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part III.",
  "text": "In this Part of this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—\n“ bodily sample ” means a sample of bodily fluid or bodily tissue taken for the purpose of scientific tests;\n“excluded ” means excluded subject to the occurrence of mutation to section 27 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 , to sections 27 to 29 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and to sections 33 to 47 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.\n“ scientific tests ” means scientific tests carried out under this Part of this Act and made with the object of ascertaining the inheritable characteristics of bodily fluids or bodily tissue.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition in s. 25 substituted (1.4.2001) by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42, SIF 49:7), s. 23(2)(a); S.I. 2001/777, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 25 added (1.8.1991) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (c. 37, SIF 83:1), s. 49(5), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with ss. 39(3), 43(2)); S.I. 1991/1400, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 25 substituted (6.4.2009) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), s. 68(2), Sch. 6 para. 13(a); S.I. 2009/479, art. 6(1)(d) (with art. 7, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 25 inserted (6.4.2009) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), s. 68(2), Sch. 6 para. 13(b); S.I. 2009/479, art. 6(1)(d) (with art. 7, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Definition in s. 25 inserted (1.4.2001) by Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42, SIF 49:7), s. 23(2)(b); S.I. 2001/777, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1987 c.42(47:7)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/46/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:03.132204+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."
}