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ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ACT - SECT 87

Regulations

87. Regulations

(1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters -

(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act,

but Regulations shall not be made in respect of a matter in respect of which the Court may make Rules.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Regulations may provide for and in relation to -

(a) the Forms to be used for the purposes of this Act;

(b) the manner and form of the witnessing of a consent to an adoption;

(c) the making, correction or cancellation of entries in the Register of Adoptions;

(d) the making, correction or cancellation of entries relating to adopted children in the Register of Births kept under the law of the Territory;

(e) the furnishing of copies of, or extracts from, matters included in the Register of Adoptions, and

(f) penalties for an offence against the Regulations.



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