Section 2 Legitimation by subsequent marriage or civil partnership of mother and father.F6F7
England and Wales
Subject to the following provisions of this Act, where the F1mother and father of an illegitimate person marry F2or become civil partners of one another, the marriage F3or civil partnership shall, if the father of the illegitimate person is at the date of marriage F4or the date of the formation of the civil partnership domiciled in England and Wales, render that person, if living, legitimate from the F5that date.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in s. 2 substituted (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/560), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 15(3)
- F2
Words in s. 2 inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 12(4)(b)
- F3
Words in s. 2 inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 12(4)(c)
- F4
Words in s. 2 inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 12(4)(d)
- F5
Words in s. 2 substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 12(4)(e)
- F6
Words in s. 2 heading inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 12(4)(a)
- F7
Words in s. 2 heading substituted (13.3.2014) by The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/560), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 15(3)