BILL To secure to the public the right Presented by Mr. Trevelyan, Sir Martin Conway, Mr. Johnston, Colonel Assheton Pownall, Mr. Cecil Wilson, Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Power to make adoption orders. 2. Restrictions on making adoption orders. 3. Matters with respect to which Court to be satisfied. Terms and condition of order. 4. 5. Effect of adoption order. 6. Power to make interim orders. 7. Power to make subsequent order in respect of infant already subject to an order. 8. Jurisdiction and procedure. 9. Restriction on payments or to adoption. 10. Provisions as to existing de facto adoptions. 11. Adopted children register. 12. Short title, commencement, and extent. SCHEDULE. Α BILL то B' Make provision for the adoption of infants. E it enacted by the King'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, 5 as follows :— A.D. 1926. 1. (1) Upon an application in the prescribed manner Power to by any person desirous of being authorised to adopt an make infant who has never been married, the Court may, adoption subject to the provisions of this Act, make an order (in 10 this Act referred to as "an adoption order ") authorising the applicant to adopt that infant. (2) A person so authorised to adopt the infant and an infant authorised to be adopted are in this Act referred to as an "adopter" and an "adopted child" respectively, 15 and "infant" means a person under the age of twenty-one. (3) Where an application for an adoption order is made by two spouses jointly, the Court may make the order authorising the two spouses jointly to adopt, but save as aforesaid no adoption order shall be made 20 authorising more than one person to adopt an infant. 25 orders. 2. (1) An adoption order shall not be made in any Restrictions case where on making adoption (a) the applicant is under the age of twenty-five orders. years, or (b) the applicant is less than twenty-one years older |