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26 1987

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT, 1987

PART II

Amendment of the Act of 1931

Definition ( Part II ).

6. —In this Part “the Act of 1931” means the Legitimacy Act, 1931 .

Amendment of section 1 of the Act of 1931.

7. —(1) Section 1(2) of the Act of 1931 (which precludes the operation of that Act in the case of a person whose father and mother could not have been lawfully married to one another at the time of his birth or at some time during the period of ten months preceding such birth) is hereby repealed.

(2) In the case of a person to whom this section relates, the Act of 1931 shall have effect as if for the references in sections 1(1) and 5 of that Act to the commencement of that Act there were substituted a reference to the commencement of this Part.