1986 Ed.]

Legitimacy

CHAPTER 184

LEGITIMACY ORDINANCE

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

[CAP. 184

Section

1. Short title

2. Interpretation

3. Legitimation by subsequent marriage of parents

4. Rights of legitimated persons, etc. to take interests in property

5. Succession on intestacy of legitimated persons and their issue

6. Application to illegitimate person dying before marriage of parents

7. Personal rights and obligations of legitimated persons

8. Provisions as to persons legitimated by extraneous law

9. Application to persons recognized as having been legitimated

10. Right of illegitimate child and mother of illegitimate child to succeed on intestacy of the other

11. Legitimacy of children of certain void marriages

12. Legitimacy of children of voidable marriages

13. Saving

14. Avoidance of doubt

Schedule. Registration of Births of Legitimated Persons

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