Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

[Index] [Table] [Database Search] [Name Search] [Previous] [Next] [Help]

Legitimacy Act (No. 3 of 1970) - Sect 2

This Act not to apply to certain marriages

2.
(1) This Act shall not apply to
(a) a marriage between persons professing Islam; or
(b) a marriage, under the Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act, between persons subject to Kandyan law.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, the expression " a valid marriage to which this Act applies" does not include a marriage referred to in sub-section (1).

[Index] [Table] [Database Search] [Name Search] [Previous] [Next] [Help]