Legitimacy Act 1961 s 10
s 10 Provisions as to persons legitimated by extraneous law
(1) Where the parents of an illegitimate person marry or have married one another, whether before, or after the prescribed date, and the father of the illegitimate person was or is, at the time of the marriage, domiciled in a country, other than Malaysia, by the law of which the illegitimate person became legitimated by
Laws of Malaysia A CT 60
virtue of the subsequent marriage, that person, if living, shall within Malaysia be recognized as having been so legitimated from the prescribed date or from the date of the marriage, whichever be the later, notwithstanding that his father was not at the time of the birth of that person domiciled in a country in which legitimation by subsequent marriage was permitted by law.
(2) All the provisions of this Act relating to legitimated persons and to the taking of interests in property by or in succession to a legitimated person and the spouse, children and remoter issue of a legitimated person shall apply in the case of a person recognized as having been legitimated under this section, or who would, had he survived the marriage of his parents, have been so recognized; and accordingly this Act shall have effect as if references therein to a legitimated person included a person so recognized as having been legitimated.
Malay text (authoritative)
Peruntukan mengenai orang yang disahtarafkan oleh undang- undang luar
(1) Jika ibu bapa orang tidak sah taraf mengahwini atau telah mengahwini satu sama lain, sama ada sebelum, atau selepas tarikh yang ditetapkan, dan pada masa perkahwinan itu bapa orang tidak sah taraf itu telah atau yang berdomisil di sesuatu negara, selain Malaysia, dan menurut undang-undang negara itu orang tidak sah taraf itu telah menjadi sah taraf oleh sebab perkahwinan kemudian itu, orang itu, jika hidup, hendaklah diiktiraf di Malaysia sebagai telah disahtarafkan sedemikian dari tarikh yang ditetapkan atau dari tarikh perkahwinan itu, mengikut mana-mana yang terkemudian, walaupun pada masa orang itu dilahirkan bapanya tidak berdomisil di suatu negara yang pengesahtarafan melalui perkahwinan kemudian dibenarkan oleh undang-undang.
(2) Segala peruntukan Akta ini berhubungan dengan orang disahtarafkan dan pengambilan kepentingan mengenai harta oleh atau sebagai waris kepada orang disahtarafkan dan suami atau isteri, anak dan zuriat jauh orang disahtarafkan hendaklah terpakai dalam hal seseorang yang diiktiraf telah disahtarafkan di bawah seksyen ini, atau yang akan, jika dia masih hidup selepas perkahwinan ibu bapanya, diiktiraf sedemikian; dan oleh itu Akta ini hendaklah berkuatkuasa seolah-olah sebutan dalamnya mengenai orang disahtarafkan termasuk seseorang yang diiktiraf sedemikian sebagai telah disahtarafkan.
Kesahtarafan
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Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
