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LAW REFORM (HUSBAND AND WIFE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 6

Meaning of ""child'' in sections 4 and 5.

6.(1) For the purposes of sections 4 and 5

(a)"child" includes stepchild, illegitimate child, adopted person and a person
of whom, in the case of section 4 the insured, and in the case of section 5
the contracting party, is the lawful guardian;

(b)an illegitimate child shall be treated as the legitimate child of his
mother and natural father; and

(c)an adopted person shall be treated as the child of the person or persons by
whom he was adopted and not as the child of any other person.

(2) In this section "adopted" includes:

(a)adopted in pursuance of an adoption order made under the Adoption of
Children Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 or any previous enactment relating to
children or any corresponding enactment in force at the time of the adoption
in any other part of the United Kingdom, or in the Channel Islands or the Isle
of Man;

(b)adopted under the law for the time being in force in any other country
where

(i)under that law the adoption operates to effect substantially the same
change in status, relative to one another, of the parties to the adoption as
any adoption duly made pursuant to any such an order as is referred to in
paragraph (a) would effect;

(ii)the parties to the adoption were then resident in that country.

(3) For the purposes of any proceedings under section 4 or section 5 an
adoption authorised by any such an order as is referred to in subsection
(2)(a) may be proved by the production of any document which is receivable as
evidence of the order in the country where the order is made.

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