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ADOPTION (HAGUE CONVENTION) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1969 - SECT 10

1968 c.53

10.(1) In any case where the internal law of a country falls to be ascertained
for the purposes of this Act by the court and there are in force in that
country two or more systems of internal law, the relevant system shall be
ascertained in accordance with any rule in force throughout that country
indicating which of the systems is relevant in the case in question or, if
there is no such rule, shall be the system appearing to the court to be most
closely connected with the case.

(2) Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, nothing in this Act
shall be construed as depriving an adoption effected outside Northern Ireland,
or a determination made outside Northern Ireland with respect to such an
adoption, of any recognition falling to be accorded to it under the law of
Northern Ireland apart from this Act.

(3) In section 1(4) and (5) of the Act of 1967 (whereby an infant may be
re-adopted and the adopter is deemed to be the parent of the infant) the
references to an order previously made and to the previous or last previous
order shall be construed as including references to a
convention adoption order under this Act, a specified order and a
foreign adoption.

(4) In section 11(3)(a) of the Criminal Injuries to Persons (Compensation) Act
(Northern Ireland) 1968 the reference to any corresponding enactment (being an
enactment corresponding to the Act of 1967) shall include a reference to an
enactment corresponding to section 1 of this Act.

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