DOMESTIC RELATIONSHIPS ACT 1994 (NO. 28 OF 1994) - SECT 38 38. (1) A court may, on application or its own motion, declare whether a domestic relationship exists, or existed, between specified persons on a specified date or during a specified period, or both.

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DOMESTIC RELATIONSHIPS ACT 1994 (NO. 28 OF 1994) - SECT 38

38. (1) A court may, on application or its own motion, declare whether a domestic relationship exists, or existed, between specified persons on a specified date or during a specified period, or both.

(2) A declaration has effect as a judgment of the court.

(3) A declaration may be made whether or not the person or either of the persons named by the applicant as a party or parties to a domestic relationship is alive.

(4) While a declaration is in force, the persons to whom it relates shall be taken for all purposes to have been, or not to have been, parties to a domestic relationship, as specified in the declaration.

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