Adoption Act, 1976

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Number 29 of 1976

ADOPTION ACT, 1976

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section
1.	Definitions.
2.	Validity of certain adoption orders and consents to adoption orders.
3.	Information for persons consenting to adoption orders.
4.	Enquiries on behalf of Board.
5.	Adoption orders not to be declared invalid if declarations not in best interests of children concerned.
6.	Orders by court as to custody of children in certain cases.
7.	Construction of references to child in other Acts.
8.	Privacy of records.
9.	Short title, construction and collective citation.

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Number 29 of 1976

ADOPTION ACT, 1976

AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE ADOPTION ACTS, 1952 TO 1974. [13th July, 1976]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: