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LEGITIMACY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1928 - SECT 8

Provisions as to persons legitimated by extraneous law.

8.(1) Where the parents of an illegitimate person marry or have married one
another, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, and the father
of the illegitimate person was or is, at the time of the marriage, domiciled
in a country, other than Northern Ireland, by the law of which the
illegitimate person became legitimated by virtue of such subsequent marriage,
that person, if living, shall in Northern Ireland be recognised as having been
so legitimated from the commencement of this Act or from the date of the
marriage, whichever last happens, notwithstanding that his father was not at
the time of the birth of such person domiciled in a country in which
legitimation by subsequent marriage was permitted by law.

(2) All the provisions of this Act relating to legitimated persons and to the
taking of interests in property by or in succession to a legitimated person
and the spouse, children and remoter issue of a legitimated person (including
those relating to the rate of death duties) shall apply in the case of a
person recognised as having been legitimated under this section, or who would,
had he survived the marriage of his parents, have been so recognised; and,
accordingly, this Act shall have effect as if references therein to a
legitimated person included a person so recognised as having been legitimated.

(3) For the purposes of this section, the expression "country" includes
England and Wales, Scotland and any other part of His Majesty's Dominions, as
well as a foreign country.

S.9 rep. by 1977 NI17 art.3(7)


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