Legitimacy Act 1926
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to amend the law relating to children born out of wedlock. |
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| Citation | 16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 60 |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 15 December 1926 |
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Status: Partially repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
| Text of the Legitimacy Act 1926 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. | |
The Legitimacy Act 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 60) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The purpose of the Legitimacy Act 1926 was to amend the law relating to children born out of wedlock.
Act
[edit]The fundamental principle of the Legitimacy Act 1926 is exposed in article 1(2):
Nothing in this Act shall operate to legitimate a person whose father or mother was married to a third person when the illegitimate person was born.
The act allowed children to be legitimised by the subsequent marriage of their parents, provided that neither parent had been married to a third party at the time of the birth. In those circumstances, the legitimised birth was re-entered in the birth indexes for that year (sometimes many years after the original birth). The original entry would be annotated to refer to the new entry.[1]
The act was modified by the Legitimacy Act 1959, which extended it to children whose parent had been married to somebody else when they were born.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b K (A Child) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWHC 1834 (Admin) at para. 24, [2018] WLR 6000 (18 July 2018), High Court (England and Wales)
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