{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928/section-A1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928/section-A1.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1928/5",
  "legislation_title": "Legitimacy Act (Northern Ireland) 1928",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legitimacy-act-northern-ireland-1928",
  "path": "section/A1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "A1",
  "heading": "Legitimacy of children of civil partners",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) Subsection (1) applies to a child born on or after 13th January 2020.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1928/5/section/A1",
    "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."
}