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1954 c.33 46.(1) In this Act "adoption order" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(1); "Adoption Rules" means rules of court and county court rules; "adoption society" means a body of persons which performs, either as the whole or as part of its activities, the function of making arrangements for the adoption of infants; "body of persons" means any body of persons, corporate or unincorporate; "charitable association" means any body of persons not operating for gain, which exists for the purpose of promoting a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic object, whether or not the object is charitable within the meaning of any rule of law; "compulsory school age" has the meaning assigned to it by section 116(1) of the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947; "county court rules" has the meaning assigned to it by section 21(5) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954; "child protection visitor" means any person [authorised by [the Ministry of Home Affairs] to visit children] for the purposes of [section 17] of the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) [1968] ...; "the court" means any court having jurisdiction to make orders under this Act; "father" in relation to an illegitimate infant means the natural father; "guardian" in relation to an infant, means a person appointed by deed or will in accordance with the provisions of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1886, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, to be his guardian; "infant" means a person under the age of [eighteen] years who has never been married; "interim order" means an order made under section 8; "place of safety" has the same meaning as in the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) [1968]; "prescribed" in sections 30, 32 and 35 means prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry, and elsewhere means prescribed by Adoption Rules or other rules made under section 45(2) as the case may be; "registered adoption society" means an adoption society registered under Part V; "relative" in relation to an infant, means a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt, whether of the full blood, of the half-blood or by affinity, and includes (a)where an order authorising an adoption has been made in respect of the infant or any other person under this Act or the Adoption of Children Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 or any enactment repealed by that Act or has been made anywhere in Great Britain, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands, any person who would be a relative of the infant within the meaning of this definition if the adopted child were the child of the adopter born in lawful wedlock; (b)where the infant is illegitimate, the father of the infant and any person who would be a relative of the infant within the meaning of this definition if the infant were the legitimate child of its mother and father; "rules of court" has the meaning assigned to it by section 21(5) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954. (2) For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be deemed to make arrangements for the adoption of an infant or to take part in arrangements for the transfer of a child to the care or possession of another person, if (as the case may be) (a)he enters into or makes any agreement or arrangement for, or for facilitating, the adoption of the infant by any other person, whether the adoption is effected, or is intended to be effected, in pursuance of an adoption order or otherwise; or (b)he enters into or makes any agreement or arrangement for, or facilitates, the transfer of the child to the care or possession of that other person; 1954 c.33
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