Paragraph 24 The Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) Rules 1984

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 4-13 revoked by Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) 1991 Sch. 3
Sch. para. 28-31 revoked by Family Proceedings Courts (Matrimonial Proceedings etc.) 1991 Sch. 3
Sch. para. 2 revoked by Magistrates' Courts (Enforcement or Variation of Orders Made in Family Proceedings and Miscellaneous Provisions) 2011 Sch. 5
Sch. para. 21-27 revoked by Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) 2005 Sch.

In Form 7 in that Schedule, in the fifth paragraph of the Notes, for the words from the beginning of that paragraph to the words “court order;” there shall be substituted the folowing words:

“A father who was not married to the mother of a child at the time of his birth is not a parent for this purpose, but is a guardian if a court has made an order giving him all the parental rights and duties with respect to the child or if he has legal custody of the child by virtue of a court order;”.