Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ACT - SECT 90

Notwithstanding the repeal effected by section 88, except as expressly or by necessary implication provided by this Act -

(a) an adoption or interim order made or continued in force under the repealed Act and in force immediately before the commencement continues in force under this Act as if the order was made under this Act, and this Act applies accordingly;

(b) an application to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory for an adoption order under the repealed Act that was pending immediately before the commencement may be continued and dealt with, and proceedings incidental to such an application may be instituted, continued and dealt with, under the repealed Act and an order, direction or other decision made in respect of the application shall have effect as if it were an order, direction or decision made under this Act;

(c) a consent in writing to the adoption of a child given by a person before the commencement in accordance with the repealed Act and duly attested is, for the purposes of proceedings under this Act for the adoption of the child by the person or persons specified in the consent, deemed to be a sufficient consent of the person giving consent for the purposes of this Act;

(d) in relation to a disposition of property by will or otherwise by a person who, or by persons any of whom, died before the commencement or to a devolution of property arising on the death of a person who in respect of that property died intestate before the commencement, an adoption order made under this Act has the same effect as if made under the repealed Act;

(e) a right, privilege, duty, liability or relationship that was acquired or vested in a person or came into being under a law in force in the Territory before the commencement continues to be a right, privilege, duty, liability or relationship of that person as if acquired or vested in that person or came into being under this Act;

(f) the Register of Adoptions kept and maintained under the repealed Act shall, on the commencement, become part of the Register of Adoptions kept under this Act; and

(g) an adoption list kept and maintained under the repealed Act shall, on the commencement, become part of the adoption list maintained under this Act.