The Bastardy Laws Amendment Act 1873
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter sixty-five, intituled "The Bastardy Laws Amendment Act, 1872:" And whereas it is expedient to amend the said recited Act: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows