{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1987/schedule-2/paragraph-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1987/schedule-2/paragraph-73.json",
  "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/73",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "At the end of Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978, there shall be added the following heading and entry—\n“ Construction of certain references to relationships\nIn relation to England and Wales—\n(a) references (however expressed) to any relationship between two persons;\n(b) references to a person whose father and mother were or were not married to each other at the time of his birth; and\n(c) references cognate with references falling within paragraph (b) above,\nshall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987. [The date of the coming into force of that section]”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "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/73",
    "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."
}