ADOPTION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967

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ADOPTION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 16



16.(1) Upon an adoption order being made

(a)all rights, duties, obligations and liabilities of the parents or guardians
of the adopted child in relation to the future custody, maintenance,
upbringing and education of the child (including all rights to appoint a
guardian or to consent or give notice of dissent to marriage) shall be
extinguished; and

(b)all such rights, duties, obligations and liabilities shall vest in and be
exercisable by and enforceable against the adopter as if the adopted child
were a child born to the adopter in lawful wedlock;

(2) In any case where two spouses are the adopters, the spouses shall in
respect of the matters aforesaid, and for the purpose of the jurisdiction of
any court to make orders as to the custody and maintenance of and right of
access to children, stand to each other and to the adopted child in the same
relation as they would have stood if they had been the lawful father and
mother of the child and the adopted child shall stand to them in the same
relation as to a lawful father and mother.

(3) For the purpose of the law relating to marriage, an adopter and the person
whom he has been authorised to adopt under an adoption order shall be deemed
to be within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity; and the provisions of
this subsection shall continue to have effect notwithstanding that some person
other than the adopter is authorised by a subsequent order to adopt the same
infant.

(4) Subsection (3) shall not (without prejudice to section 28(2) of the
Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954) affect any marriage solemnised
before the commencement of this Act.

(5) The references in this section to an adoption order include references to

(a)an order authorising an adoption made under the Adoption of Children Act
(Northern Ireland) 1950, or any enactment repealed by that Act; and

(b)an order authorising an adoption made (whether before or after the
commencement of this Act) anywhere in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or any of
the Channel Islands.

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ADOPTION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 16