[4ZA Acquisition of parental responsibility by second female parent]
Children Act 1989 (1989 c 41) | Legislation

[4ZA  Acquisition of parental responsibility by second female parent]

[(1)     Where a child has a parent by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and is not a person to whom section 1(3) of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 applies, that parent shall acquire parental responsibility for the child if—

(a)     [except where subsection (3A) applies,] she becomes registered as a parent of the child under any of the enactments specified in subsection (2);

(b)     she and the child's mother make an agreement providing for her to have parental responsibility for the child; or

(c)     the court, on her application, orders that she

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