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Paragraph 41

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

For section 4 substitute the following section—

“ Power of parent to appoint guardian.

4

The parent of a child may appoint any person to be guardian of the child after his death, but any such appointment shall be of no effect unless—

(a)

the appointment is in writing and signed by the parent; and

(b)

the parent at the time of his death was guardian of the child or would have been such guardian if he had survived until after the birth of the child.”