Another Amendment proposed, in page 1, line 27, at the end, to add the words :

"(4) Satisfactory evidence for the registration of the birth of a legitimated person can only be given by(1) an affiliation order; or

(2) an avowal made by the father on the occasion of the registration of the birth or of the baptism and recorded in the certificate, or made by the parents in writing at the time of the marriage, and transmitted to the Registrar-General within one year of the marriage.

In the absence of such evidence no illegitimate person shall be legitimated "-(Mr. Rawlinson).

Question, "That those words be there added,”—put, and negatived.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 2.

Amendment made, in page 2, line 1, by leaving out Sub-section (1), and by inserting the words:—

"(1) A legitimated person shall as respects intes

tacies occurring after the first day of September,
nineteen hundred and twenty-four, be entitled to take
any interest in real or personal property in like
manner as if he or she had been born legitimate
(Sir Gerald Hohler),-instead thereof.

Other Amendments made, in page 2, line 8, by leaving out Sub-section (2); and in page 2, line 16, by leaving out Sub-section (3)-(Sir Gerald Hohler).

Amendment proposed, in page 2, line 27, at the end, to add the words :

"(5) Nothing in this section shall give a legitimated person any rights interfering with those of legitimate children of either of his parents "-(Mr. Rawlinson).

Question, "That those words be there added," - put, and negatived.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 3, disagreed to.

Clauses 4 and 5, agreed to.

Clause 6.

Amendment proposed, in page 4, line 4, to leave out Sub-section (1)-(Sir Gerald Hohler).-Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause."

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Amendment made, in page 4, line 11, at the end, by adding the words :

"Nothing in this Act shall affect the operation or construction of any will (including a codicil) coming into operation before the commencement of this Act, or of any settlement or other disposition (not being a testamentary disposition) made before such commencement"-(Sir Gerald Hohler).

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

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Clause 7.

Amendment made, in page 4, line 15, after the word Act," by inserting the words "or after the date of the marriage leading to legitimation, whichever last happens" -(Mr. Rhys Davies).

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 8 and 9, agreed to.

New Clause ("Rights of issue of illegitimate child dying before marriage of parents") (Sir Gerald Hohler), brought up, and read the first and second time, and added to the Bill.

Another New Clause ("Right of an illegitimate child and mother of illegitimate child to succeed on intestacy of the other")-(Sir Gerald Hohler), - brought up, and read the first and second time, and added to the Bill.

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