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Adoption and LegitimationS

[F26F3(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .S

(2)Section 1 of the M1Legitimation (Scotland) Act 1968, (requirements and effects of legitimation) is renumbered subsection (1) and at the end there is added the following subsection—

“(2)Subsection (1) above shall apply in relation to an illegitimate person who has been adopted by one of his natural parents as sole adoptive parent, where the adopter thereafter marries the other natural parent, as it applies in relation to any illigitimate person, to the effect of rendering that person the legitimate child of both natural parent; and in this Act “illegitimate”, “ligitimated” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.”.

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