3. Power to make adoption orders
Feedback & supportUpon an application made in the prescribed manner by any person desirous of being authorized to adopt a child, the Court may, subject to this Act, make an adoption order, authorizing the applicant to adopt that child.
child
“child” means an unmarried person under the age of twenty-one and includes a female under that age who has been divorced;
Where an application for an adoption order is made by two spouses jointly, the Court may make the order authorizing the two spouses jointly to adopt, but except as provided, no adoption order shall be made authorizing more than one person to adopt a child.
Court
“Court” means any Court having jurisdiction to make adoption orders under this Act;
An adoption order may be made authorizing the adoption of a child by the mother or father of the child, either alone or jointly with her or his spouse.
spouse
“spouse” means in relation to a woman her husband, in relation to a man of Chinese race his principal wife, and in relation to any other man his wife. Power to make adoption orders