ADOPTION (HAGUE CONVENTION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 2 Application of Act of 1967 to convention adoption orders.

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ADOPTION (HAGUE CONVENTION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 2

Application of Act of 1967 to convention adoption orders.

2.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Adoption Act (Northern
Ireland) 1967 (in this Act referred to as the "Act of 1967") shall have effect
as if any reference in that Act to an adoption order within the meaning of
that Act included a reference to a convention adoption order within the
meaning of this Act.

(2) The references to an adoption order in sections 1, 9, 16(5), 17(6), 18(5),
19(6), 20 and 21 of the Act of 1967 shall not include a reference to a
convention adoption order.

(3) The Act of 1967 as modified by subsections (1) and (2) shall have effect
in relation to a convention adoption order and a proposed
convention adoption order subject to the following further modifications

(a)the following provisions shall be omitted, that is to say, in section 3(2)
the words "domiciled but", section 10 (appeals by way of rehearing),
section 45 (rules) and in section 46(1) the definitions of "adoption order",
"Adoption Rules", "county court rules" and "infant";

(b)any reference to Adoption Rules or the court within the meaning of that Act
shall respectively be construed as a reference to rules and the court within
the meaning of this Act;

(c)in section 8(3) (interim order not to be made where the making of an
adoption order would be unlawful by virtue of section 3) the reference to
section 3 of the Act of 1967 shall include a reference to section 3(1) of
this Act.

(4) Sections 4 to 6 of the Act of 1967 (which relate to consents) shall not
apply to a convention adoption order proposed to be made in respect of an
infant who is not a United Kingdom national and section 3(3) shall have effect
in relation to such a convention adoption order, and accordingly, in
section 7(1)(a) of the Act of 1967 the reference to that Act shall include a
reference to this Act.

(5) In any enactment passed before the date on which this subsection comes
into force, other than the Act of 1967, any reference to an adoption order
within the meaning of the Act of 1967 or to adoption or a person adopted under
that Act or such an order shall respectively be construed as including a
reference to, or to adoption or a person adopted under, a
convention adoption order within the meaning of this Act.

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ADOPTION (HAGUE CONVENTION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 2