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LEGITIMACY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1928 - SECT 2

Declarations of legitimacy of legitimated persons.

2.(1) A person claiming that he or his parent or any remoter ancestor became
or has become a legitimated person may present a petition under the Legitimacy
Declaration Act (Ireland), 1868, and that Act, subject to such necessary
modifications as may be prescribed by rules of court, shall apply accordingly.

(2) A petition under the said Act may be presented by any such person as
aforesaid to the county court instead of to the High Court, and the county
court on such a petition being presented shall have all such jurisdiction as
by the said Act is conferred upon the High Court:

Provided that, where a petition is presented to the county court, the county
court, if it considers that the case is one which owing to the value of the
property involved or otherwise ought to be dealt with by the High Court, may,
and if so ordered by the High Court shall, transfer the matter to the High
Court, and on such transfer the proceeding shall be continued in the High
Court as if it had been originally commenced therein.

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