Adoption of Children Acts Amendment Act of 1967 (Qld)

47 iu$ETTS .Cirnr ANNO SEXTO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 14 of 1967 An Act to Amend "The Adoption of Children Acts, 1964 to 1965," in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 5TH APRIL, 1967) BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. (1) Short title . This Act may be cited as " The Adoption of Children Acts Amendment Act of 1967." (2) Principal Act. " The Adoption of Children Acts, 1964 to 1965," are in this Act called the Principal Act. (3) Collective title . The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively cited as " The Adoption of Children Acts, 1964 to 1967." 2. Commencement of Act. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of August one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five and shall have retrospective effect accordingly. 3. Amendment to s. 5. Section five of the Principal Act is amended by, in subsection (4), inserting before the words " an adoption order " the words " or to a devolution of property arising upon the death cf a person who in respect of that property died intestate before such commencement,".

48 Adoption of Children Acts Amendment Act of 1967, No. 14 4. Amendments to s. 29 . Section twenty-nine of the Principal Act is amended by- (a) in subsection (1), inserting before the word " except " the words and to devolutions of property in respect of which a person dies intestate after the commencement of this Act,"; (b) in subsection (4), inserting before the words " an adoption order " the words " and to a devolution of property arising upon the death of a person who in respect of that property died intestate before such commencement,".