Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1945 (WA)

1945.] Adoption of Children. [No. 31.

ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

9° and 10° GNO. VI., No. XXXI.

No. 31 of 1945.

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

1921.

[Assented to 30th January, 1946.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act, 1945, and shall be read as one with the Adoption of Children Act, 1896-1921 (No. 6 of 1896 as reprinted pursuant to the Amendments Incorporation Act, 1938, in Volume 2 of The Reprinted Acts of the Par- liament of Western Australia, 1943), hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

1.

2.    A section is inserted in the principal Act after New section.

section thirteen as follows : —

13A. (1) The Minister for Child Welfare may make arrangements with the Minister administering

Arrangements

with other

Common-

States and

any law relating to the adoption of children in any

wealth for

transmission

other State of the Commonwealth of Australia or in

Adoption.

of Orders of

any territory of the Commonwealth of Australia for

the transmission to or by him as the case requires

of a certified copy of any order of adoption concern- ing a child born in Western Australia and adopted under the law of such other State or such territory or born in such other State or such territory and adopted under this Act.

(2) Where a certified copy of an order of adoption

made in any other State of the Commonwealth of

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Australia or in any territory of the Commonwealth of Australia is received in pursuance of an arrange- ment made under subsection (1) of this section it shall be filed in the Supreme Court and shall there- upon be dealt with as if it were an order of adoption made in Western Australia.

Citation of

principal Act 3. The principal Act as amended by this Act may be

as amended. cited as the Adoption of Children Act, 1896-1945.