Section 3 Legitimation by extraneous law.

Subject to the following provisions of this Act, where the F2mother and father of an illegitimate person marry F3or become civil partners of one another and the father of the illegitimate person is not at the time of the marriage F4or civil partnership domiciled in England and Wales but is domiciled in a country by the law of which the illegitimate person became legitimated by virtue of such subsequent marriage or civil partnership, that person, if living, shall in England and Wales be recognised as having been so legitimated from the date of the marriage or civil partnership notwithstanding that, at the time of his birth, his father was domiciled in a country the law of which did not permit legitimation by subsequent marriage or civil partnership.

Subject to the following provisions of this Act, where—

the child, if living, shall in England and Wales be recognised as having been so legitimated from the date of the F10marriage or formation of the civil partnership notwithstanding that, at the time of the child's birth, the female parent was domiciled in a country the law of which did not permit legitimation by subsequent F11marriage or civil partnership.