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Status of Children Act 1974
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12 Application for order
[Section 12 Substituted by No. 42 of 1994, s. 10, Applied:01 Aug 1997] If in any proceedings the parentage of a child is an issue, a party to the proceedings or a person representing the child may request the court to make an order requiring a parentage testing procedure to be carried out.