ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 106 Separate representation of child

ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 106

    (1)     Proceedings under this Act relating to an application for an order—

        (a)     for adoption of a child where that application is contested;

        (b)     dispensing with the consent of a person to the making of an order for adoption of a child; or

        (c)     discharging an order for adoption—

shall not be instituted or continued unless the child is separately represented in the proceedings.

S. 106(2) amended by No. 46/1998

s. 7(Sch. 1).

    (2)     Where, in any other proceedings under this Act affecting a child, it appears to the Court that the child ought to be separately represented, the Court may, of its own motion or on the application of the child, the Secretary, the principal officer of an approved agency or of any other organization concerned with the welfare of children or of any other person, order that the child be separately represented and the Court may make such other orders as it thinks necessary for the purpose of securing that separate representation.

No. 7147 s. 60.