Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) Insert the following heading to section 8 of the Principal Act—
" Evidence of parentage ".
(2) In sections 8(1) and 8(5) of the Principal Act, for "the father" (wherever occurring) substitute "a parent".
(3) After section 8(2) of the Principal Act insert —
"(2A) An instrument signed by the mother of a child and any person certifying that she is the non-birth mother of the child is, if executed as a deed or by each of those persons in the presence of a legal practitioner, prima facie evidence that the person named as the non-birth mother is a parent of the child.".