The Legal Status of a Child in Canada

• Author: Maureen McTeer
• Pages: 120-128

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– chapter ten –

The Legal Status of a Child

in Canada

e provinces and territories are responsible for the welfare and protec-

tion of the children within their borders. e legislation dening who is

a child in each province and territory is summarized in this chapter.

BRITISH COLUMBIA

 : Family Law Act, SBC , c , s 

“child”, except in Parts  [Parentage] and  [Child and Spousal Support]

and section  [regulations respecting child support], means a person

who is under  years of age;

Interpretation

 () In this Part:

“assisted reproduction”means a method of conceiving a child other

than by sexual intercourse;

“birth mother”means the person who gives birth to, or is delivered of,

a child, regardless of whether her human reproductive material was

used in the child’s conception;