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Adoption Amendment Act 1987

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 25 March 1987 (as enacted) | 1987 No 19

Adoption Amendment Act 1987

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Adoption Amendment Act 1987

Public Act
  
1987 No 19
Date of assent
  
25 March 1987
 

Contents

Title
1 Short Title
2 Consents to adoptions
Administrative information

An Act to amend the Adoption Act 1955

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Adoption Amendment Act 1987, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Adoption Act 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Consents to adoptions

(1)

Section 7(8) of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (aa) (as inserted by section 3 of the Adoption Amendment Act 1962), and substituting the following paragraph:

“(aa)

If given in the Cook Islands or Niue, it is witnessed by—

“(i)

The New Zealand Representative; or

“(ii)

A Judge, Registrar, or Deputy Registrar, of the High Court of the Cook Islands or the High Court of Niue (as the case requires); or

“(iii)

A solicitor of the High Court of the Cook Islands or the High Court of Niue (as the case requires) or the High Court of New Zealand:”.

(2)

Section 3 of the Adoption Amendment Act 1962 is hereby consequentially repealed.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 25 March 1987 (as enacted)

Adoption Amendment Act 1987

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