Commentary on Provisions Family law Paragraph 3: Modification of the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986
52.Paragraph 3 of schedule 2 amends the Law Reform (Parent and Child) Scotland Act 1986. It amends section 5 (presumptions) so that the conditions under which a man will be presumed to be the father of a child are extended to where he was in a civil partnership with the mother of the child at any time between conception and birth, even in the case of a void or voidable civil partnership.