111 Parental responsibility of unmarried father
Adoption and Children Act 2002 (2002 c 38) | Legislation

Part 2 Amendments of the Children Act 1989

111  Parental responsibility of unmarried father

(1)     Section 4 of the 1989 Act (acquisition of responsibility by the father of a child who is not married to the child's mother) is amended as follows.

(2)     In subsection (1) (cases where parental responsibility is acquired), for the words after “birth” there is substituted

“, the father shall acquire parental responsibility for the child if—

(a)     he becomes registered as the child's father under any of the enactments specified in subsection (1A);

(b)     he and the child's mother make an agreement (a “parental responsibility agreement”) providing for him to have parental responsibility for the child; or

(c)

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