Civil Code (Cap. 16)

Civil Code (Cap. 16), article 290

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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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