Adoption (Amendment) Act 2017

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Number 19 of 2017

ADOPTION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2017

CONTENTS

Section

1. Definition

2. Repeals

3. Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act

4. Amendment of section 4 of Principal Act

5. Visits and enquiries pertaining to adoptions

6. Amendment of section 16 of Principal Act

7. Pre-placement consultation procedure

8. Circumstances where no pre-placement consultation

9. Best interests of child and views of child

10. Amendment of section 20 of Principal Act

11. Amendment of section 21 of Principal Act

12. Children who may be adopted

13. Consultations with relevant non-guardians of child

14. High Court may give custody of child to prospective adopters and authorise dispensing with consent to adoption

15. Religion

16. Amendment of section 33 of Principal Act

17. Amendment of section 34 of Principal Act

18. Amendment of section 37 of Principal Act

19. Amendment of section 38 of Principal Act

20. Amendment of section 40 of Principal Act

21. Amendment of section 41 of Principal Act

22. Amendment of section 43 of Principal Act

23. Further adoption

24. Amendment of section 54 of Principal Act

25. Parental rights and duties

26. Effect of adoption where adopter is step parent of child

27. Amendment of section 59 of Principal Act

28. Amendment of section 60 of Principal Act

29. Stamp duty on land

30. Amendment of section 62 of Principal Act

31. Amendment of section 68 of Principal Act

32. Amendment of section 69 of Principal Act

33. Amendment of section 78 of Principal Act

34. Amendment of section 79 of Principal Act

35. Amendment of section 84 of Principal Act

36. Amendment of section 85 of Principal Act

37. Amendment of section 97 of Principal Act

38. Amendment of section 125 of Principal Act

39. Amendment of section 144 of Principal Act

40. Amendment of section 145 of Principal Act

41. Amendment of Principal Act

42. Review, consultation and report

43. Short title and commencement

SCHEDULE

Particulars of Adoptions to be entered in Adopted Children Register

Acts Referred to

Adoption Act 2010 (No. 21)

Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 (No. 9)

Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)

Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 (No. 7)

Number 19 of 2017

ADOPTION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2017

An Act to amend and extend the law in relation to the adoption of children; and, for that purpose, to amend the Adoption Act 2010 ; to provide for the repeal of Part 11 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 ; and to provide for related matters.

[19th July, 2017]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: