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Ord. No. 12/87

SIR EDWARD YOUDE MEMORIAL FUND

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of

the said bill.

LAW Kam-sang,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

ADOPTION (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 13/87

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HONG KONG

No. 13 of 1987

L.S.

I assent.

David AKERS-JONES,

Acting Governor.

An Ordinance to amend the Adoption Ordinance.

12 March 1987

[13 March 1987]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Adoption (Amendment) Short title. Ordinance 1987.

2.

Section 4A of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by Repeal and the following-

"Commence-

ment and transfer of adoption applications.

3.

4A. (1) An application made under section 4 or 20 shall be commenced in the District Court.

(2) An application commenced under subsection (1) may be transferred by the District Court to the High Court-

(a) at the request of any party to the proceedings; or

(b) on the motion of the District Judge.

(3) Rules may provide for the procedures connected with the transfer of applications to the High Court and for the retransfer of applications from the High Court to the District Court.".

Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) in subsection (5), by deleting "section 6" and substituting the

following

"sections 5A and 6";

replacement of section 4A.

(Cap. 290.)

Amendment of

section 5.