Clause 2

by deleting subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(1) Any surname of a child to be entered in respect of the registration of the birth of the child shall be that of the father of the child; but where the child is illegitimate and the father is not an informant of the birth, the surname, if any, shall be that of the mother of the child.”; and

by inserting, immediately after subsection (2) thereof, the following subsections: —“(3) Where before the commencement of the Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Act, 1979, the father of an illegitimate child was an informant of the birth of the child and —

the joint surname of both parents of the child; or

the surname of the mother of the child,has been entered in a register of births as having been given to the child, the registrar having the custody of the register shall, upon an application being made in accordance with subsection (4) of this section, forthwith enter in the register the surname of the father as having been given to that child, without making any erasure of the original entry.(4) An application for the surname of the father of an illegitimate child to be entered in a register of births as having been given to the child shall —

be made in the prescribed form by any parent or guardian of the child or, where the child has attained twenty-one years of age, by himself; and

be accompanied by the prescribed fee.”.