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ADOPTION (HAGUE CONVENTION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 11

1968 c.9

11.(1) Provision in regard to any matter to be prescribed under this Act, or
under Part I of the Act of 1967 in its application to
convention adoption orders and proposed convention adoption orders, and
dealing generally with all matters of procedure and incidental matters arising
out of this Act or the said Part I and for carrying this Act or the said
Part I into effect shall be made by rules of court.

(2) Without prejudice to section 21 of the Interpretation Act (Northern
Ireland) 1954 rules of court may provide

(a)for applications for convention adoption orders to be heard and determined
otherwise than in open court;

(b)for excluding or restricting the jurisdiction of any court where an
application for a convention adoption order within the meaning of this Act or
an adoption order within the meaning of the Act of 1967 has been refused by
that or any other court.

(3) The Lord Chief Justice may make rules with respect to any matter (not
being a matter prescribed by rules under subsection (1) or (2)) with respect
to which it appears to him to be necessary or expedient to make rules for
giving due effect to the provisions of this Act.


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