The Bastardy Laws Short title (1961)

In Her Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this 0rhday of April, 1961. (LS No. 12 MAURICE H. DORMAN, Governor. UNITY NuSTICEJ tREEDOM Sierra Leone An Ordinance to increase Payments for the Support of Illegitimate Children A 127 Date of [lth May, 1961. commence BETENACTED by the Legislature of Sierra Leone, as follows : ment. l, This Ordinance may be cited as the Bastardy Laws Short title. (Increase of Payments) Ordinance, 1961.

(1) Section 4 of the Bastardy Laws Amendment Act,Increase ofpayment un 1612 (which proyides for the making of an order on the putative maximum Lather for the maintenance, etc., of a bastard chla), shall have der affliat CIect as well for the purpose of pending applications as for the orders. thirty shillings a 36& 36 Vict. c65,Purpose of future applications as though WCeK" were therein substituted for five shillings a week" A 128 No. 12 Bastardy Laws (Increase of Payments) 1961 (2) Where any order under the said section 4 for the payment of a weekly sum is in force at the date of the commence ment of this Ordinance, either the court which made the order or a court of summary jurisdiction for the place where the person who is entitled under tho order to receive the payment resides may, on the application of the person so entitled, by order vary the existing order by increasing the amount payable thereunder to such a sum not excceding thirty shillings a week as the court, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, thinks proper. Passed in the House of Representatives this 10th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one. M.P. MSW (M) 25 S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.