Section 17
Section 17
(1)
Where, at any time after the making of an adoption order, the adopter or the adopted person or any other person dies intestate in respect of any property, that
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property shall devolve in all respects as if the adopted person were the child of the adopter born in lawful wedlock and were not the child of any other person.
(2)
In any disposition of property made, whether by instrument inter vivos or by will (including codicil), after the date of an adoption order ―
(a)
any reference (whether express or implied) to the child or children of the adopter shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as, or as including, a reference to the adopted person;
(b)
any reference (whether express or implied) to the child or children of the adopted person’s natural parents or either of them shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as not being, or as not including, a reference to the adopted person; and
(c)
any reference (whether express or implied) to a person related to the adopted person in any degree shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to the person who would be related to him in that degree if he were the child of the adopter born in lawful wedlock and were not the child of any other person.
Supplementary provisions.