Section 5 Presumption of prior deathI1

In section 18 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (succession on intestacy), after subsection (2) insert—

(2ZA)

Subsection (2) does not apply if a person is recorded as the intestate's father, or as a parent (other than the mother) of the intestate—

(a)

in a register of births kept (or having effect as if kept) under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, or

(b)

in a record of a birth included in an index kept under section 30(1) of that Act (indexes relating to certain other registers etc).