TONGA

MAINTENANCE OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN (AMENDMENT) ACT 1989

NO. 11 OF 1989

I assent,

TAUFA’AHAU TUPOU IV

18th October, 1989

AN ACT
TO AMEND THE MAINTENANCE OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN ACT

(18th of September 1989)

BE IT ENACTED by the King and the Legislative Assembly of Tonga in the Legislature of the Kingdom as follows:

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Maintenance of Illegitimate Children (Amendment) Act 1989.

(2) The Maintenance of Illegitimate Children Act (Cap.30 [1988 Ed]), as amended, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (2) thereof and inserting the following in its stead:

"(2) The magistrate hearing the complaint on being satisfied of the truth thereof may make an order-

(a) adjudging the defendant to be the father of the child; and

(b) direct that the defendant's name be entered in the register as the father of the child."

3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting immediately at the end of subsection (2) thereof the following -

"The defendant's name shall be entered in the register as the father when the birth of such child is registered."

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Passed in Legislative Assembly this 18th day of September, 1989