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Welfare Reform Bill

85: Schedule 6, page 94, leave out lines 12 to 19 and insert— "(6) The Minister may by regulations provide that, except in such cases as the regulations may prescribe, where the mother is required by subsection (1) to give information relating to the father— (a) the mother’s duty under section 2A to sign the register is to have effect as a duty to sign a declaration in such form as may be so prescribed, (b) the registrar is not to register the birth of the child until such time as may be determined in accordance with the regulations, and (c) the entry in the register is to be taken for the purposes of this Act to have been signed by the person who signed the declaration."