{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1928/5",
  "legislation_title": "Legitimacy Act (Northern Ireland) 1928",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Application to illegitimate person dying before marriage , or civil partnership, of mother and father .",
  "text": "Where an illegitimate person dies after the commencement of this Act and before the marriage or civil partnership of his mother and father leaving any spouse , 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 or 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.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 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(5)(a) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 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(5)(b) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 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(5)(c) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 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(5)(d) (with regs. 6-9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 heading 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(5)(e) (with regs. 6-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1928/5/section/5",
    "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."
}