Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1921 (WA)

No. 9.] Adoption of Children. [1921.

ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

12° GEO. V., No. IX.

No. 9 of 1921.

AN ACT to amend the Adoption of Children Act, 1896.

[Assented to 8th November, 1921.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

Short title. 1.

This Act may be cited as the Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act, 1921.

Amendment of

section 5. 2.

Sub-paragraph (3) of section five of the Adoption of Children Act, 1896, is amended by inserting the following after the words "fifteen years,'' in line two :—" or if over that age has been under the care and custody of some person for a period of three years, during which time such a person has acted as an adopting parent or otherwise has acted in loco parentis."

Amendment of 3.

Section ten of the Adoption of Children Act, 1896, is hereby amended by omitting the words "in addition to the proper name of the child," and every order of adoption made under the principal Act before the commencement of this Act shall have effect as if those words were omitted as from the commencement of the principal Act.

Section 10.

Inspection of

records. 4.

The record of any proceedings in the Supreme Court under the principal Act shall not be open to public inspection except for some reasonable and proper purpose and with the sanction in writing of the Master.

Registration by

Registrar General 5.

[10b.] It shall be the duty of the Registrar of the Supreme Court to- furnish to the Registrar General under the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Act, 1894, at intervals of not exceeding six months, a return in writing in

of Orders of Adop-

tion.

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the prescribed form of the orders of adoption made under this Act, and the Registrar General shall cause au entry of every such order to be made in the entry of the birth of the adopted child in the register of births.

6. All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by the Reprinting of Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act, eftlitc.tarT.4 under the supervision of the Clerk of Parliaments, and in any

such reprint the short title shall be altered to the Adoption

of Children Act, 1896-1921.