AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ORDINANCE 1949

PROPOSED ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ORDINANCE.

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 8 of 1949

	The proposed Ordinance provides that when children born in the Australian Capital Territory are the subject of Adoption Orders made in any State or other Territory of the Commonwealth, the Orders when registered in the Australian Capital Territory shall have the same force and effect as if the Orders had been made in the Australian Capital Territory.