Section 16Part 3 — ESTABLISHMENT OF PATERNITY
Orders associated with parentage testing orders
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Where the court makes a parentage testing order it may make such other orders as it considers necessary or desirable —
to enable the parentage testing procedure to be carried out; or
to make the parentage testing procedure more effective or reliable.
The court, pursuant to subsection (1), may make any of the following orders —
an order requiring a person to submit to a medical procedure;
an order requiring a person to provide a bodily sample;
an order requiring a person to surrender a bodily sample previously obtained from that person or from another person (regardless of whether that other person is still living) that has been stored or otherwise preserved; or
an order requiring a person to furnish information relevant to the person's medical or family history.
The court may also make such orders as to costs as it considers just in relation to costs incurred in relation to —
the carrying out of the parentage testing procedure or other orders made by the court in relation to the parentage testing procedure, or
the preparation of reports in relation to the information obtained as a result of the carrying out of the parentage testing procedure.
In deciding whether to make an order under this section, the court shall —
consider and determine any objection made by a party to the proceedings on account of medical, religious or other grounds, and
if it determines that an objection is valid, take the objection into account in deciding whether to make the order.
Cross References
- Section 15 of Status Of Children Act
Where the court makes a parentage testing order
Referenced By
- Section 15 — Parentage testing orders
in section 16
- Section 18 — Rules
under section 15 and section 16
- Section 19 — Taking of bodily samples by unqualified persons
or an order under section 16