Child Welfare (Amendment) Act 1941 (NSW)

CHILD WELFARE (AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 63, 1941.

An Act to make further provision in relation to the adoption of children; for this purpose to amend the Child Welfare Act, 1939; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented

to, 25th November, 1941.]

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 New South
Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1 . This Act may be cited as the "Child Welfare

(Amendment) Act, 1941." 2 .

2 . The Child Welfare Act, 1939, as amended by subsequent Acts is amended by inserting after section one hundred and seventy-two the following new section:—

172A. (1) The Minister may make arrangements with the Minister administering any law relating to the adoption of children in any other State of the Commonwealth of Australia or in 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 concerning a child born in New South Wales 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 Common- wealth of Australia or in any territory of the Commonwealth of Australia is received in pursuance of an arrangement made under subsection one of this section it shall be filed by the Minister or an officer authorised by the Minister in that behalf in the Equity Office of the Supreme Court of this State, and shall thereupon be dealt with as if it were an order of adoption made in New South Wales.