{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1928/5",
  "legislation_title": "Legitimacy Act (Northern Ireland) 1928",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:—\nThe expression “legitimated person” means a person legitimated by this Act:\nThe expression “date of legitimation” means the date of the marriage or of the formation of the civil partnership leading to the legitimation, but—\n(a)where (if the legitimation is by marriage)\nthe marriage occurred before the commencement of this Act, means the commencement of this Act , and\n(b)where (if the legitimation is by civil partnership) the date of the formation of the civil partnership is before 13th January 2020, means 13th January 2020:\nThe expression “disposition” means an assurance of any interest in property by any instrument whether inter vivos or by will:\nThe expression “intestate” includes a person who leaves a will but dies intestate as to some beneficial interest in his real or personal estate, and “will” includes “codicil.”",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 11: words in the definition of \"date of legitimation\" inserted (6.4.2009) by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c. 22), ss. 56, 68(2), Sch. 6 para. 59; S.I. 2009/479, art. 6(d)(f) (with art. 7, Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 11 substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 23(7)(a) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 11 inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 23(7)(b) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 11 inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 23(7)(c) (with regs. 6-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1928/5/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:34:59.417353+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}