Effect on relationships
39 Effect on relationships
This section applies if the court makes a parentage order in relation to a child in favour of an intended parent, or intended parents.
On the making of the parentage order—
the child becomes a child of the intended parent, or intended parents, and the intended parent, or intended parents, become the parent, or parents, of the child; and
the child stops being a child of a birth parent and a birth parent stops being a parent of the child.
Other relationships are determined in accordance with subsection (2).
However, for the purpose of applying a law relating to a sexual offence where a familial relationship is relevant, the child is taken to have both the familial relationships that existed before the making of the parentage order as well as the familial relationships that result from the making of the parentage order.
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