Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013

Common law presumptionE+W

2(1)Section 11 does not extend the common law presumption that a child born to a woman during her marriage is also the child of her husband.E+W

(2)Accordingly, where a child is born to a woman during her marriage to another woman, that presumption is of no relevance to the question of who the child's parents are.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 13.3.2014 by S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(i)