Section 18 | Births Of Illegitimate Children | Registration Of Births Deaths And Marriages Scotland Act 1965 C49

18 Births of illegitimate children

Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (1965 c 49) | Legislation

18 Births of illegitimate children

[(1) [Subject to section 18ZA of this Act,] no person who is not married to [or in a civil partnership with] the mother of a child and has not been married to [or in a civil partnership with] her since the child's conception shall be required, as father of the child, to give information concerning the birth of the child and, save as provided in section 20 of this Act, the [district registrar for the registration district] shall not enter in the [birth registration form concerning the birth] the name and surname of any such person as father of the child except—

(a) at the joint request of the mother and the person acknowledging himself to be the father of the child (in which case [the birth registration form is to be attested by, or on behalf of, both that person and] the mother); or

(b) at the request of the mother—

(i) on the production of—

(aa) a declaration in the prescribed form made by the mother stating that that person is the father of the child; and

(bb) a statutory declaration made by that person acknowledging himself to be the father of the child;