LORDS AMENDMENTS

TO THE

ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BILL.

[NOTE. The page and line refer to Bill (103) as first printed by the Lords.]

Page 2.

Leave out lines 4 to 8, and insert :

("Provided that where the applicant and the infant are within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity, it shall be lawful for the court, if it thinks fit, to make the order notwithstanding that the applicant is less than twenty-one years older than the infant.")

Line 26, after (" infant") insert (" either")

Line 27, after (" support ") insert ("or is a person "whose consent ought, in the opinion of the court " and in all the circumstances of the case, to "be dispensed with.")

Line 34, after ("consent ") insert ("or that the 66° spouses have separated and are living apart "and that the separation is likely to be "permanent ")

Page 3.

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Line 40, after ("aforesaid ") insert ("and for the purpose of the jurisdiction of any court to "make orders as to the custody and maintenance "of and right of access to children ")

Page 4.

Lines 6 and 7, leave out ("under any will, settle"ment, or other ")

Lines 11 and 12, leave out ("instrument disposing "of property ") and insert (" disposition ")

Line 28, at end insert as a new subsection:

("(5) For the purposes of the enactments relating to friendly societies, collecting societies, and industrial assurance companies, which enable such societies and companies to insure money to be paid for funeral expenses, and which restrict the persons to whom money may be paid on the death of a child under the age of ten, the adopter shall be deemed to be the parent of the child; and where before the adoption order was made any such insurance had been effected by the natural parent of the child, the rights and liabilities under the policy shall by virtue of the adoption order be transferred to the adopter, and the adopter shall, for the purposes of the said enactments, be treated as the person who took out the policy.")