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Children Act 1975

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7(1)Paragraph 3 does not apply for the purposes of the table of kindred and affinity in Schedule 1 to the [1949 c. 76.] Marriage Act 1949 or sections 10 and 11 (incest) of the [1956 c. 69.] Sexual Offences Act 1956.

(2)Paragraph 3 does not apply for the purposes of any provision of—

(a)the British Nationality Acts 1948 to 1965,

(b)the [1971 c. 77.] Immigration Act 1971,

(c)any instrument having effect under an enactment within paragraph (a) or (b), or

(d)any other provision of the law for the time being in force which determines citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies.

(3)Paragraph 3 shall not prevent a person being treated as a near relative of a deceased person for the purposes of section 32 of the [1975 c. 14.] Social Security Act 1975 (payment of death grant), if apart from paragraph 3 he would be so treated.

(4)Paragraph 3 does not apply for the purposes of section 70(3)(b) or section 73(2) of the Social Security Act 1975 (payment of industrial death benefit to or in respect of an illegitimate child of the deceased and the child's mother).

(5)Subject to regulations made under section 72 of the Social Security Act 1975 (entitlement of certain relatives of deceased to industrial death benefit), paragraph 3 shall not affect the entitlement to an industrial death benefit of a person who would, apart from paragraph 3, be treated as a relative of a deceased person for the purposes of the said section 72.

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