AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Adoption of Children (Amendment) Ordinance 1988
No. 4 of 1988
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 3 March 1988.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
GARY PUNCH
Minister of State for the Arts 
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Adoption of Children Ordinance 1965
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Adoption of Children (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.1
Commencement
2.  This Ordinance shall come into operation on such date as is fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.
Principal Ordinance
3.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Adoption of Children Ordinance 1965.2
Interpretation
4.  Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
	(a)	by inserting after the definition of “child” in subsection (1) the following definition:
“ ‘Director’ means the Director of Welfare;”; and
	(b)	by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of “the Director”.
Judicial notice of signatures
5.  Section 64 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “of Child Welfare”.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 March 1988.
2.	No. 15, 1965 as amended by No. 19, 1966; Nos. 41 and 47, 1974; No. 65, 1977; No. 5, 1979; No. 42, 1983; No. 67, 1985.