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Family Law Reform Act 1969

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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As published

19 Policies of assurance and property in industrial and provident societies.

(1) In section 11 of the Married Women’s Property Act 1882 and section 2 of the Married Women’s Policies of Assurance (Scotland) Act 1880 (policies of assurance effected for the benefit of children) the expression “ children ” shall include illegitimate children. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) Subsection (1) of this section does not affect the operation of the said Acts of 1882 and 1880 in relation to a policy effected before the coming into force of that subsection; ...

Your change, as a redline

19 Policies of assurance and property in industrial and provident societies.

(1) In section 11 of the Married Women’s Property Act 1882 and section 2 of the Married Women’s Policies of Assurance (Scotland) Act 1880 (policies of assurance effected for the benefit of children) the expression “ children ” shall include illegitimate children. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) Subsection (1) of this section does not affect the operation of the said Acts of 1882 and 1880 in relation to a policy effected before the coming into force of that subsection; ...

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Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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