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ADOPTION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 32

1968 c.34

32.(1) The Ministry may make regulations

(a)for regulating the conduct of negotiations entered into by or on behalf of
registered adoption societies with persons having the care and possession of
infants who are desirous of causing the infants to be adopted, and in
particular, for securing

(i)that, where the parent or guardian of an infant proposes to place the
infant at the disposition of the society with a view to the infant being
adopted, he shall be furnished with a memorandum in the prescribed form
explaining, in ordinary language, the effect, in relation to his rights as a
parent or guardian, of the making of an adoption order in respect of the
infant, and calling attention to the provisions of this Act, or of any rules
made thereunder, relating to the consent of a parent or guardian to the making
of such an order, and to the provisions of this Act relating to the sending or
taking of infants abroad; and

(ii)that, before so placing the infant at the disposition of the society, the
parent or guardian shall sign a document in the prescribed form certifying
that he has read and understood the said memorandum;

(b)for requiring that the case of every infant proposed to be delivered by or
on behalf of a registered adoption society into the care and possession of an
adopter shall be considered by a committee (to be called a "case committee")
appointed by the society for the purpose, and consisting of not less than
three persons;

(c)for prescribing, in respect of every such infant as aforesaid, the
inquiries which must be made and the reports which must be obtained by the
society in relation to the infant and the adopter for the purpose of ensuring,
so far as may be, the suitability of the infant and the adopter respectively,
and, in particular, for requiring that a report on the health of the infant
signed by a fully registered medical practitioner must be obtained by the
society;

(d)for securing that no such infant shall be delivered into the care and
possession of an adopter by or on behalf of the society until the adopter had
been interviewed by the case committee or by some person on their behalf,
until a representative of the committee has inspected any premises in Northern
Ireland in which the adopter intends that the infant should reside
permanently, and until the committee have considered the prescribed reports;

(e)for requiring a registered adoption society to furnish to the Ministry the
prescribed accounts and the prescribed information relating to the activities
of the society;

(f)for making provision for the care and supervision of infants who have been
placed by their parents or guardians at the disposition of adoption societies;

(g)for prescribing anything which by this Part is required or authorised to be
prescribed.

(2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of a
regulation made under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding for a first offence twenty-five pounds, and, in the case of
a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(3) All regulations made by the Ministry under any of the provisions of
this Act shall be subject to negative resolution.

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