Terms used
3 Terms used
In this Act unless inconsistent with the subject matter or context —
court means the court by which any action brought under this Act is tried and includes a court comprising a judge and jury;
relative has the meaning given in Schedule 2.
In deducing any relationship for the purposes of this Act —
an adopted person shall be treated as the legitimate child of his adopters; and
an illegitimate person shall be treated as the legitimate child of his parents.
In this section, adopted person means a person who is legally adopted whether in the State or elsewhere, and whether before or after the coming into operation of this Act.
For the purposes of this Act, a child of the deceased person born alive after the death of that person shall be treated as having been born before the death of the deceased person.
[Section 3 amended: No. 97 of 1985 s. 5; No. 28 of 2003 s. 54; No. 19 of 2010 s. 58(2) and (3).]
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