Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT 2007 (NO. 20, 2007) - SECT 8

             (1)  If:

                     (a)  a child is born to a woman as a result of the carrying out of an artificial conception procedure while the woman was married to a man; and

                     (b)  the procedure was carried out with the man's consent; and

                     (c)  the child is not biologically the child of the man;

then, for the purposes of this Act, the child is taken to be a child of the man and of no other man.

             (2)  Subsection (1) applies in relation to a purported marriage that is void as if:

                     (a)  the purported marriage were a marriage; and

                     (b)  the parties to the purported marriage were husband and wife;

unless, at the time of the carrying out of the artificial conception procedure, neither party to the purported marriage believed on reasonable grounds that the purported marriage was valid.