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Provided that such legitimation in respect of each child of
such prior marriage shall have effect as from the date of the
birth of each such child:

Provided further that the provisions of this section shall
not operate to alter the status of any child deemed legiti-
mate by virtue of any other law.

16. The Legitimation Ordinance, save and except sec-
tions 3 and 10 thereof, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to
persons legitimated by reason of registration of marriage
under the provisions of this Ordinance.

PART III.
DIVORCES.

17. Part III. of this Ordinance shall apply to all divorces,
dissolutions and annulments of marriages between Muslims
(hereinafter referred to as ‘‘ divorces ’’) effected after the
commencement of this Ordinance, and all such divorces, if
effected by or before a Divorce Officer according to the
Islamic law of divorce, dissolution and annulment of marriage
and are registered in accordance with the provisions of this
Part of this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be valid for all
purposes as from the date of registration, notwithstanding
that any Muslim marriage so dissolved or annulled may have
becn registered in accordance with any other law relating
to the registration of marriages.

18. Immediately after the absolute dissolution or annul-
ment of any Muslim marriage by or before a Divorce Officer,
he shall enter in a book to be supplied by the Registrar
General and kept by the Divorce Officer for that purpose
(to be called the ‘‘ Muslim Divorce Certificate Book ”’), a
certificate in the prescribed form of the dissolution or
annulment of such marriage which shall be signed by the
Divorce Officer and by the party applying for the divorce,
and such signatures shall be witnessed by two credible
witnesses. The Divorce Officer shall also enter up in the
counterfoil the prescribed particulars and sign the same.

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Application
of Legitima-
tion
Ordinance.

Application
of Part IIT.

Completion
of divorce
certificate.