{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1987/schedule-2/paragraph-10",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/42",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law Reform Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1987",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 78 of that Act—\n(a) in subsection (1) for the definition of “infant” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““child” means a person under the age of eighteen;”;\n(b) after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(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.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/42/schedule/2/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:51:29.189443+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."
}