LEGITIMACY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 3 Legitimation: revocation of adoption orders and cancellations in registers.

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LEGITIMACY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 3

Legitimation: revocation of adoption orders and cancellations in registers.

3.(1) Where

(a)any person legitimated by virtue of section one had been adopted by his
father and mother before the commencement of this Act; or

(b)any person adopted by his father or mother alone has subsequently become a
legitimated person by virtue of the marriage of his father and mother;

(2) Where an adoption order is revoked under this section the prescribed
officer of the court shall cause the revocation to be communicated in the
prescribed manner to the Registrar-General for Northern Ireland who shall
cause to be cancelled

(a)the entry in the Adopted Children Register relating to the adopted person;
and

(b)the marking of the word "Adopted" of any entry relating to him in the
Register of Births;

(3) The revocation of an adoption order under this section shall not affect
the operation of sections nine and ten of the Adoption of Children Act
(Northern Ireland), 1950, in relation to an intestacy which occurred, or a
disposition which was made, before the revocation.

(4) In this section the word "prescribed" means prescribed by rules of court
or county court rules.

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LEGITIMACY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1961 - SECT 3