Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1915 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO SEXTO

GEORGII QUINT' REGIS,

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No. 35 of 1915.

AN ACT to amend the Adoption of Children

Act, 1896.

[Assented to 13th September, 1915.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Par-BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent' of the Legislative Council and

liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.    This Act may be cited as the Adoption of Children Act Short title.

Amendment Act, 1915, and shall be read as one with the Adoption

of Children Act, 1896, hereinafter referred to as the principal

Act.

2.    Section two of the principal Act is amended by inserting Amendment of

after the word "adoption," in the interpretation of "adopted Section 2.

child," the following words :—" has been made as herein pro-

vided; and 'adopting parent' means any person who is by any such

order of adoption."

3.    All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by the Reprinting of

Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act , p

rincipal Act with

under the supervision of the Clerk of Parliaments, and a refer-

ence to this Act shall be made in the margin.

By Authority: Parn. WM. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.