2003 Archive

Section 111 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 came into force on 01.12.03.
December 2003

The effect of this is that the unmarried father acquires parental responsibility if he is registered after this date as the child's father on the birth certificate under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953. Consequently, if the birth and registration took place prior to this date then the father does not obtain parental responsibility under this new provision.