Schedule, The Legitimacy Act, 1989

(Section 2(2)) REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS OF LEGITIMATE PERSONS 1. The Chief Registrar may, upon production of such evidence as appears to him to be satisfactory, authorise at any time the re-registration of the birth of a legitimated person whose birth is already registered under the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1983 and such re-registration shall be effected in such manner and at such place as the Minister may by Regulations prescribe: [Margin: Act No. 11 of 1983.] Provided that the Chief Registrar 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— 10 No. 7 Legitimacy 1989 (a) the name of a person acknowledging himself to be the father of the legitimated person has been registered under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1983; or (b) the paternity of the legitimated person has been established by an Affiliation Order or otherwise by a decree of a Court of competent jurisdiction; or (c) a declaration of the legitimacy of the legitimated person has been made under this Act. 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, within the time specified in this paragraph to furnish to the Chief Registrar information with a view to obtaining the re-registration of the birth of that person; that is to say— (a) if the marriage took place before the commencement of this Act, within eighteen months after such commencement; (b) if the marriage takes place after the commencement of this Act, within twelve months after the date of the marriage. 3. Where the parents, or either of them, fail to furnish the necessary information within the time specified for the purpose, the Chief Registrar may at any time after the expiration of that time require the parents of a person whom he believes to have been legitimated by virtue of this Act, or either of them, to give him such information concerning the matter as he may consider necessary, verified in such manner as he may direct, and for that purpose to attend personally either at his office or at any other place appointed by him within such time, not being less than seven days after the receipt of the notice, as may be specified in the notice. 4. The failure of the parents or either of them to furnish information as required by this Schedule in respect of a legitimated person shall not affect the legitimation of that person. 5. No fee for re-registration under this Schedule shall be charged if 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 as may be prescribed by regulations under this Schedule. [Margin: Act No. 11 of 1983.] 6. This Schedule shall be construed as one with the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1983. No. 7 Legitimacy 1989 11 Passed in Parliament this *14th* day of *December*, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine C. B. FOFANA *Clerk of Parliament.* THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. C. B. FOFANA *Clerk of Parliament.*