Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 E+W Effect of extension of marriage: further provision

PART 2 E+W Presumption on birth of child to married woman

Common law presumption E+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

I1 Sch. 4 para. 2 in force at 13.3.2014 by S.I. 2014/93, art. 3(j)(i)