title: The Bastardy Laws (Increase of Payments) Act, 1988 (No. 2 of 1988), 5 January 1988.
abstract: This Sierra Leone Act provides that "Section 4 of the Bastardy Laws Amendment Act, 1872, (which provides for the making of an order on the putative father for the maintenance, etc. of a bastard child) shall have effect as well for the purpose of pending applications as for the purpose of future applications as though '100 leones a week' were therein substituted for '30 shillings a week'."  The Act also allows orders already made to be varied by increasing the sum to be paid up to 100 leones.
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000354:Africa, Western; D001519:Behavior; D002654:Child Care; D002668:Child Rearing; D003906:Developing Countries; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D007086:Illegitimacy; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D012807:Sierra Leone; D012940:Social Problems
keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Behavior; Child Rearing; Child Support--legal aspects; Developing Countries; English Speaking Africa; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Family Relationships; Filiation; Illegitimacy--legal aspects; Legislation; Sierra Leone; Social Problems; Western Africa