Section 7
When adoption may be annulled
—
(1)
No adoption shall be annulled except by order of the
High Court.
(2)
The High Court may on application made, by way of originating motion, by the State Attorney General or any person named in a certificate issued under section 4 as the natural parent or adopting parent or guardian or child annul an adoption if after hearing such evidence as it considers necessary it is of the opinion—
(a)
that the adopted child is being treated in such a way by the adopting parents that the health of such child is being injured;
(b)
that the adopting parents are unfit to have the care and custody of the child;
(c)
that in all the circumstances of the case it is in the interests of the child that the adoption should be annulled;
(d)
that the registration of the adoption was procured by fraud or misrepresentation on the part of any of the persons named in the certificate as the natural parent or adopting parent or guardian of the child; or
(e)
that the adopted child, who is still a minor, has been abandoned by his adopting parents or parent or the whereabouts of such a child are unknown.
(3)
If an adoption is annulled by the Court the rights of the adopted child and the adopting parents under section 2 are extinguished and the child resumes his original legal status as the child of his natural parents.