Section A1 Legitimacy of children of civil partnersF1
(1)
A child is legitimate by virtue of a civil partnership between the natural parents of the child if, had the civil partnership been a marriage (and all other circumstances were the same), the child would have been legitimate at common law by virtue of the marriage.
(2)
Subsection (1) applies to a child born on or after 13th January 2020.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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S. A1 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(2) (with regs. 6-9)