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Legitimation (Re-registration of Birth) Act 1957

As Enacted Cited authorities 2 Cited in Amendments 7 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1957 c. 39
Year1957


Legitimation (Re-registration of Birth) Act, 1957

(5 & 6 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 39

An Act to extend the operation of section fourteen and paragraph (d ) of section thirty-six of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1953, and of the Schedule to the Legitimacy Act, 1926; and for purposes connected with that matter.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

S-1 Re-registration of births of legitimated persons.

1 Re-registration of births of legitimated persons.

(1) Section fourteen of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1953 , and the Schedule to the Legitimacy Act, 1926 (which relate to the re-registration of births of persons legitimated by the subsequent marriage of their parents) shall apply and be deemed always to have applied in relation to all persons recognised by the law of England and Wales as having been legitimated by the subsequent marriage of their parents, whether or not their legitimation, or the recognition thereof, was effected by the last mentioned Act:

Provided that where—

(a ) the marriage by which a person is legitimated took place before the passing of this Act; and

(b ) the said Schedule would not apply or have applied in relation to him but for this Act,

the time limited by paragraph 2 of the said Schedule for the furnishing to the Registrar General of information with a view to obtaining the re-registration of the birth of that person shall not expire until three months from the passing of this Act.

(2) In the said section fourteen, and in paragraph (d ) of section thirty-six of the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1953, the words ‘within the meaning of the Legitimacy Act, 1926’ are hereby repealed wherever they occur.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theLegitimation (Re-registration of Birth) Act, 1957.

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