Project No. 68

In 1976 the Commission was given a reference to consider and report on the rights of putative fathers in relation to their illegitimate children ... (The project was initially titled Rights of Fathers of Illegitimate Children.)

In 1978 the project was renamed Illegitimacy and the terms of reference were expanded when the Attorney General requested that they include ‘whether the law should be amended so as to remove all or any of the remaining disabilities of illegitimacy’.

The terms of reference were further amended in 1980 when the Attorney General requested that the Commission also address ‘problems concerning children conceived by artificial insemination procedures, including the position of semen donors and the parents of such children’.