Civil Proceedings Evidence Act, 1965 (Act No. 25 of 1965)

Part I : Admissibility of Evidence

3. Evidence of non-access by husband and wife

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For the purposes of rebutting the presumption that a child to which a married woman has given birth is the offspring of her husband, she or her husband or both of them may give evidence that they had no sexual intercourse with each other during the period when the child was conceived.