Michael McCarthy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 58:

In page 63, Part 1, line 37, after "contacted" to insert "or by the informant if both parents are dead or cannot be contacted after reasonable efforts to do so have been made".

This amendment is designed to rectify an omission in the Bill. The 1986 Act allowed an informant to propose a surname for the child in the event of the parents being dead or uncontactable, but this provision has been omitted in the Bill.