Section 2
Adoption of children
State OrdinanceIn forceProvision 3 of 15
Section 2
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(1)
Subject to this Ordinance any person may adopt a child.
(2)
Such adopted child shall stand in the same relation to the adopting parent or parents as would a child born in wedlock and shall have all the rights and privileges of a legitimate child in respect of the obligations and estate of the adopting parents.
(3)
The natural parents of such adopted child shall have no control or right over such adopted child and such adopted child shall have no claim by inheritance to the property of his natural parents.
(4)
Subsections (2) and (3) shall cease to have effect if the adoption is annulled under section 7.