Adoption Act, 1998

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Number 10 of 1998

ADOPTION ACT, 1998

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1.	Interpretation.
2.	Amendment of section 3 (definitions) of Principal Act.
3.	Rules.
4.	Amendment (new Part IA) of Principal Act.
5.	Amendment of section 16 (hearing of applications) of Principal Act.
6.	Amendment (new section 19A) of Principal Act.
7.	Amendment of section 34 (restriction on making arrangements for adoption) of Principal Act.
8.	False statements.
9.	Offences generally.
10.	Amendment of section 1 (definitions) of Act of 1991.
11.	Amendment of section 2 (foreign adoptions effected in place of domicile of adopters) of Act of 1991.
12.	Where adopters' domicile or residence is elsewhere than place of effecting foreign adoption.
13.	Amendment of section 5 (foreign adoptions where adopters ordinarily resident in State) of Act of 1991.
14.	Amendment of section 6 (Register of Foreign Adoptions) of Act of 1991.
15.	Amendment of section 7 (directions of High Court in relation to entries in Register of Foreign Adoptions) of Act of 1991.
16.	Amendment of section 9 (Proof of adoptions effected outside State) of Act of 1991.
17.	Commencement.
18.	Short title, collective citation and construction.

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Number 10 of 1998

ADOPTION ACT, 1998

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE LAW RELATING TO THE ADOPTION OF CHILDREN. [29th April, 1998]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: