Section 5 Application to illegitimate person dying before marriage , or civil partnership, of mother and father .F5

Where an illegitimate person dies after the commencement of this Act and before the marriage F1or civil partnership of his F2mother and father leaving any spouse F3, civil partner , children or remoter issue living at the date of such marriage or civil partnership , then, if that person would, if living at the time of the marriage or civil partnership of his mother and father , have become a legitimated person, the provisions of this Act with respect to the taking of interests in property by, or in succession to, the spouse F4or civil partner , children and remoter issue of a legitimated person (including those relating to the rate of death duties) shall apply as if such person as aforesaid had been a legitimated person and the date of the marriage or civil partnership of his mother and father had been the date of legitimation.