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Status of Children Act 1996
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#### 27 Orders associated with parentage testing orders
27 Orders associated with parentage testing orders
> > (1) If the Supreme Court makes a parentage testing order, the Court may make such other orders as it considers necessary or desirable—
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> > > (a) to enable the parentage testing procedure to be carried out, or
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> > > (b) to make the parentage testing procedure more effective or reliable.
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> > (2) Some examples of the kinds of order that the Court can make under subsection (1) are as follows—
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> > > (a) an order requiring a person to submit to a medical procedure,
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> > > (b) an order requiring a person to provide a bodily sample,
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> > > (c) an order requiring a person to surrender a bodily sample previously obtained from that person or from another person (regardless of whether that other person is still living) that has been stored or otherwise preserved,
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> > > (d) an order requiring a person to furnish information relevant to the person’s medical or family history.
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> > (3) The Court may also make such costs orders as it considers just in relation to costs incurred in relation to—
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> > > (a) the carrying out of the parentage testing procedure or other orders made by the Court in relation to the parentage testing procedure, or
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> > > (b) the preparation of reports in relation to the information obtained as a result of the carrying out of the parentage testing procedure.
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> > (4) In deciding whether to make an order under this section, the Court must—
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> > > (a) consider and determine any objection made by a party to the proceedings on account of medical, religious or other grounds, and
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> > > (b) if it determines that an objection is valid, take the objection into account in deciding whether to make the order.