Court may direct that blood tests or DNA be taken

(1) In any civil proceedings in which the paternity of any person is to be determined by a court, the court hearing the proceedings may, on an application by any party to the proceedings, give a direction for the use of blood tests or DNA analysis to ascertain whether such tests show that a party to the proceedings is or is not thereby excluded from being the father of the person of whom it is alleged he is the father and for the taking within the time specified in the direction, of blood samples from that person, the mother of that person and the party alleged to be the father of that person, or from any of them. (2) A court may at any time revoke or vary a direction previously given by it under this section. (3) The person responsible for carrying out any blood tests taken in accordance with a court direction given under this section shall, in a report made in the prescribed form, state to the court from which the direction was given, (a) the results of the tests; (b) whether the party to whom the report relates is or is not excluded from being the father of the person as to whose paternity the declaration is sought; and (c) if that party is not so excluded, the value, if any, of the results in determining whether that party is that person’s father, and the court shall receive the report as evidence of the matters stated therein. 33 (4) The court, or any party to the proceedings with leave of the court, may require the person responsible for carrying out the blood tests to provide a written explanation or amplification of any statement made in the report and such explanation or amplification of any statement made in the report shall be deemed to be part of the report made to the (5) A party to the proceedings shall not, unless the court otherwise directs, be entitled to call as a witness the person responsible for carrying out the blood tests or any person by whom anything necessary for the purpose of enabling such tests to be carried out was done unless within fourteen days of receiving a copy of the report he serves notice on the other parties to the proceedings or on such of them as the court may direct of his intention to call that person; and where such person is called as a witness the party who called him shall be entitled to cross-examine him. (6) The cost of taking and testing blood samples for the purpose of giving effect to a direction of the court given under subsection (1) of this section and of making a report to the court shall be paid by the party on whose application such direction was given, but the amount so paid shall be treated as costs incurred by that party in the proceedings.