Parliament of the United Kingdom |
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| Long title | An Act to amend the law relating to children born out of wedlock. |
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| Dates | |
| Royal Assent | 15 December 1926 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealing legislation | Legitimacy Act 1959 (in part) Children Act 1975 |
| Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Legitimacy Act 1926 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The Act allowed children to be legitimised by the subsequent marriage of their parents, provided that neither parent had been married to a third party at the time of the birth. When this occurred the legitimised birth was re-entered in the birth indexes for that year (sometimes many years after the original birth). The original entry would be annotated to refer to the new entry.
The act was modified by the Legitimacy Act 1959, which extended it to children whose parent(s) had been married to somebody else when they were born.