Section 3Part 2 — EQUAL STATUS OF CHILDREN
All children of equal status
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3. (1) Subject to subsection (2) for all of the purposes of the Laws of the Islands a person is the child of his natural parents and his status as their child is independent of whether he is born inside or outside of marriage and all other relationships shall be determined accordingly.
Where an adoption order has been made under the Adoption of Children Law (1996 Revision) or the law of any other jurisdiction the child is in law the child of the adopting parents as is they were his natural parents.
The rule of construction whereby in any instrument words of relationship signify only legitimate relationship in the absence of a contrary expression of intention is hereby abolished.