The Archive · 1924

The Legitimacy Bill

Londsn, July 18.

The Legitimacy Bill, making legitimate children born out of wedlock whose parents subsequently marry, has been returned to the House of Lords owing to the fact that it did not: pass all the legislative stages before the end of the session in which it was introduced. The House of Lords last night passed an amendment, which the House of Commons had previously rejected, excluding from the provisions of the Bill an illegitimate child whose father or mother was married to a third per-on when it was born.—Reuter.

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