Civil Code (Cap. 16)
Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 290
290. (1) The presumption applicable to a person conceived and
born out of wedlock in virtue of a rticle 102 shall also be ente red in
the register by means of a note in the margin, and, where sub-
article (3) of article 125 falls to be applied, the adoption of any
person shall be entered in the register by means of the marking
referred to in that sub-article.
(2) In the case of such presumption, it shall be stated in the
note whether the presumption t ook place by subsequent marriage or
by a decree of the competent court.
(3) The registration of the presumption of any person whose act
of birth is not registered in the Public Registry shall be made in a
book kept for the purpose, and, in any such registration, there shall
be stated all such particulars as are required for the drawing up of
an act of birth or such of them as may be known.
Documents to be
produced.
Amended by:
XXI.1962.10;
XVIII.2004.42.
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