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Section II Re-registration of births of legitimated persons

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1. (1) The Registrar of Civil Status may, on production of such evidence as appears to him to be satisfactory, authorise at any time the re-registration of the birth of a person legitimated by marriage whose birth is already registered under the provisions of this Code or of the Civil Status Act, and such re-registration shall be effected in such manner and at such place as the Governor General may by regulations prescribe:
1. Provided that the Registrar of Civil Status shall not authorise the re-registration of the birth of any such person in any case where information with a view to obtaining such re-registration is not furnished to him by both parents, unless:—
  1. (a) the name of the legitimated person has been entered on the record of marriage of the parents at the time of their marriage; or
  1. (b) the paternity of the legitimated person has been acknowledged in the contract of marriage of the parents; or
  1. (c) the paternity of the legitimated person has been established by an affiliation order or otherwise by a decree of a Court of competent jurisdiction.
1. (2) It shall be the duty of the parents of a legitimated person, or, in cases where re-registration can be effected on information furnished by one parent and one of the parents is dead, of the surviving parent, to furnish to the Registrar of Civil Status information with a view to obtaining the re-registration of the birth of that person within 3 months after the date of the marriage.
1. (3) Where the parents, or either of them, fail to furnish the necessary information within the time limited for the purpose, the Registrar of Civil Status may at any time after the expiration of that time require the parents of a person whom he or she believes to have been legitimated by virtue of this article, or either of them to give him or her such information concerning the matter as he or she may consider necessary, verified in such manner as he or she may direct, and for that purpose to attend personally either at his or her office or at any other place appointed by him or her within such time, not being less than 7 days after the receipt of the notice, as may be specified in the notice.
1. (4) The failure of the parents or either of them to furnish information as required by this article in respect of any legitimated person shall not affect the legitimation of that person.
1. (5) No fee for re-registration under this article shall be charged if the necessary information for the purpose is furnished within the time above specified; but in any other case there shall be charged in respect of such re-registration such fees not exceeding in the aggregate $1.50 as may be prescribed by regulations under this article. (Added by Act 34 of 1956)

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