# Family Law Reform Act 1987, Section 29: Evidence of paternity in civil proceedings.

Extent: E+W

(1) Section 12 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 (which relates to the admissibility in evidence in civil proceedings of the fact that a person has been adjudged to be the father of a child in affiliation proceedings) shall be amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph (b) of subsection (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(b) the fact that a person has been found to be the father of a child in relevant proceedings before any court in England and Wales or has been adjudged to be the father of a child in affiliation proceedings before any court in the United Kingdom;”
(3) In subsection (2) for the words “to have been adjudged” there shall be substituted the words “ to have been found or adjudged ” and for the words “matrimonial or affiliation proceedings” there shall be substituted the words “ other proceedings ”.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/42/section/29 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-reform-act-1987/section-29
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