Volume 141, Number 58A
Royal Gazette
24 September 2567
Section53.The text of section 1537 of the Civil and Commercial Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1537.In the event that a woman remarries in a manner contravening section 1453 and she gives birth to a child within three hundred and ten days from the day of the end of the marriage, the child born of such woman shall be presumed to be a legitimate child of the man who is her new spouse, and the presumption under section 1536, which states that the child is a legitimate child of the former spouse, shall become inapplicable, save where a court judgment declares that the child is not a legitimate child of the new spouse.”
Section54.The text of paragraphs 1 and 2 of section 1538 of the Civil and Commercial Code, which has been amended by the Civil and Commercial Code Amendment Act (No 10), 2533 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1538.In the event that a person has entered into a marriage in a manner contravening section 1452, a child born during such marriage shall be presumed to be a legitimate child of the man who is the spouse in the subsequent registered marriage.
In the event that a woman has entered into a marriage in a manner contravening section 1452, if there is a final judgment declaring that the child is not a legitimate child of the man who is the spouse in the subsequent registered marriage, the presumption under section 1536 shall be applied.”
Section55.The text of paragraph 1 of section 1539 of the Civil and Commercial Code, which has been amended by the Civil and Commercial Code Amendment Act (No 10), 2533 BE, shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
“Section1539.In the event that a child is presumed to be a legitimate child of the man who is the spouse or former spouse according to section 1536, 1537, or 1838, such spouse or former spouse may repudiate the child by instituting an action against both the child and the mother of the child and proving that he did not stay with the mother of the child during the pregnancy period, that is, during the period of one hundred and eighty days to three hundred and ten days before the birth of the child, or that he cannot be the father the child for a different reason.”
Section56.The text of section 1541 of the Civil and Commercial Code shall be repealed and replaced by the following text:
