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Amendment of section 58 of Principal Act
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121. Section 58 of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):
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“(a) the child concerned shall be considered, with regard to the rights and duties of parents and children in relation to each other—
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(i) as the child of the adopter or adopters born to him, her or them in lawful wedlock,
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(ii) where the adopters are a couple who are civil partners of each other, as the child of those adopters, or
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(iii) where the adopters are a cohabiting couple, as the child of those adopters,”,
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and
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(b) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of “the child’s father or second female parent, as the case may be” for “the child’s father”.
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