The Legitimation Amendment Act 1902 (SA)

ANNO SECUNDO

EDWARDI V11 REGIS.

A.D. 1902.

No. 793.

An Act to amend " The Legitimation Act, 1898."

[Assented to, November y th, 1902.1

E it Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of

B the Parliament of' South Australia, as follows:

1, This Act may be cited as "The Legitimation Amendment Act, short title.

1902," and shall be incorporated with " The Legitimation Act, 1898,''

hereinafter referred to as " the principal Act."

2. The registration under the principal Act of children whose Repbationafter

parents have intermarried either before or since the passing of the pe nods mentioned in	the principal Act.
principal Act, or shall hereafter intermarry, may be made or effected
at anJ time after the date or latest time sjecifhd for that purpose
in section 6 of the principal /4ct; and such registration shall there- upon be valid and effectual for all the purposes of the principal Act, notwithstanding any thing to the contrary contained in section 6

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thereof: Provided that the parents of such children shall-

(a ) Make application, in the form of the First Schedule hereto,

to the Special Magistrate of any Local Court:

(6) Give proof, upon oath, to the satisfaction of such Special Magistrate, that they are the parents of the children named in such application:

(c) Obtain from such Special Magistrate, and produce to and file with a registrar for the registration of births at the time of the registration of such children under the principal Act, a certificate of proof of such parentage in the form or tb the effect of the Second Schedule hereto:

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( d ) In all respects comply with the requirements of the principal

,4ct other than those in section 6 thereof.

Magiatrate shall

administer oath. 3. Upon the hearing of any such application the Special Magis-

trate shall administer oaths to and examine the a ~ ~ l i c a n t s and such other witnesses as may present themselves for &amination in the same manner as if the application were an action in a Local Court.

Hearing of appliw-

tion. 4. All applications to a Special Magistrate under this Act may

be heard in private, but the Special Magistrate may authorise or

direct the attendance of any interested person thereat.

Amendment of section 5. The word ' l property " in line 9 of section 2 of the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the word " person " substituted in place thereof.

2 of A O ~ 703 of 1898.

In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

S. J. WAY, Lieutenant-Governor.

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The Legitimatim Amendment Act.-1902.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE.

To , Esquire,

Special Magistrate of the Local Court of

We, A.B. and C.D. [here insert names of parsrtts], of [hwe insert address], do

apply to you for your certificate of proof of our patentage towards ii child named

, born on the day of 9 at

Dated the day of , 19 .

[Signatures of Applicants.]

THE SECOND SCHEDULE.

1, , Esquire, Special Magistrate of the Local Court of 9

do hereby certify that A.B. and C.D. [here insert nnmer of parents] hare this day proved upon oath, to my satisfaction, that they are the parents of the child

named , born on the day of at

Dated this day of , 19 .

, Special Magiatrate.

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Addaide : By authority, 0. E. Bxuemw, Oo~ernment Printer. North Terraoe.