Children and Family Relationships Act 2015

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Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act

102. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1) —

(a) by the insertion of the following definitions:

“ ‘Act of 2010’ means the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 ;

‘Act of 2015’ means the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015;

‘civil partner’ shall be construed in accordance with section 3 of the Act of 2010;

‘cohabitant’ shall be construed in accordance with section 172(1) of the Act of 2010;

‘cohabiting couple’ means 2 adults who are cohabitants of each other and who have been living together as cohabitants for a continuous period of not less than 3 years;

‘donor-conceived child’ has the same meaning as it has in Part 2 of the Act of 2015;

‘father’, in relation to a child, includes a man who is, under section 5 of the Act of 2015, a parent of the child where that child is a donor-conceived child;

‘second female parent’, in relation to a child, means a woman (other than the mother) who is, under section 5 of the Act of 2015, a parent of the child where that child is a donor-conceived child;”,

(b) in the definition of “guardian”, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) is a guardian of the child pursuant to the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 other than a guardian appointed—

(i) under section 6C of that Act where subsection (9) of that section applies to that appointment but the court has not made an order that that person enjoys the rights and responsibilities specified in subsection (11)(f) of that section, or

(ii) under section 6E of that Act or”,

(c) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “parent”:

“ ‘parent’, in relation to a child, means the mother, father or second female parent of the child;”,

and

(d) in the definition of “relative” by the substitution of “relationship to the child being traced through a parent of that child” for “relationship to the child being traced through the mother or the father”.