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Ord. No. 48/77

L.S.

ADOPTION (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 48 OF 1977

I assent.

MURRAY MACLEHOSE,

Governor.

29th June, 1977.

An Ordinance to amend the Adoption Ordinance.

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Short title and commencement.

Amendment of section 5.

(Cap. 290.)

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and con- sent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Adoption (Amendment) Ordinance 1977 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

2.

Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) in subsection (3) by deleting "Subject to the provisions of

section 11, an" and substituting the following-

"An";

(b) in subsection (5) by deleting "Subject to the provisions of

sections 6 and 11" and substituting the following-

"Subject to section 6"; and

(c) by inserting after subsection (5) the following new subsections-

“(5A) A parent whose consent to an adoption order is required by virtue of subsection (5)(a) shall give that con- sent as the Director thinks fit in either the prescribed general form of consent or the prescribed specific form of consent.

(5B) Subject to subsection (5C), where the consent of a parent is given in the prescribed general form of consent, the parent shall cease to have any parental rights, duties, obligations or liabilities in respect of the infant with effect from the execution of the form of consent.

(5C) A parent whose consent to an adoption order was given in the prescribed general form of consent may revoke his consent by giving written notice of revocation to the Director within 3 months from the day on which the form of consent was executed, but subject to subsections (5D) and (5E) and save as aforesaid the consent shall be irrevo- cable.

(5D) Notwithstanding subsection (5C), a parent whose consent to an adoption order was given in the prescribed general form of consent may, at any time after the expiry of the period of 3 months referred to in that subsection and before the making of an adoption order, apply to the Court for an order revoking that consent on the ground