Section 8

Subject to the provisions of this section, the Court may, upon any application for an adoption order, postpone the determination of the application and make an interim order giving the custody of the infant to the applicant for a period not exceeding two years by way of a probationary period upon such terms as regards provision for the maintenance and education and supervision of the welfare of the infant and otherwise as the Court may think fit.

All such consents as are required to an adoption order shall be necessary to an interim order but subject to a like power on the part of the Court to dispense with any such consent.

An interim order shall not be made in any case where the making of an adoption order would be unlawful by virtue of subsection (6) of section 4.

An interim order shall not be deemed to be an adoption order within the meaning of this Ordinance.

Adoption order in respect of infants previously adopted.