Section 10

Where the parents of an illegitimate person marry or have married one another, and the father or mother of the illegitimate person was or is, at the time of the marriage, domiciled in a country or territory other than Brunei Darussalam, by the law of which the illegitimate person became legitimated by virtue of the subsequent marriage, that person, if living, shall within Brunei Darussalam be recognised as having been so legitimated from the date of the marriage, notwithstanding that his father was not at the time of the birth of that person domiciled in a country or territory in which legitimation by subsequent marriage was permitted by law.

Legitimacy

B.L.R.O. 9/2010 7

All the provisions of this Act relating to legitimated persons and to the taking of interests in property by or in succession to a legitimated person and the spouse, children and remoter issue of a legitimated person shall apply in the case of a person recognised as having been legitimated under this section, or who would, had he survived the marriage of his parents, have been so recognised; and accordingly this Act shall have effect as if references therein to a legitimated person included a person so recognised as having been legitimated.

Right of illegitimate child and mother of illegitimate child to succeed on intestacy of the other.