Adoption Act, 1974

Religion.

4.—An adoption order shall not be made in any case where the applicants, the child and his parents, or, if the child is illegitimate, his mother, are not all of the same religion, unless every person whose consent to the making of the order is required by section 14 of the Principal Act or by section 2 of the Adoption Act, 1964 , knows the religion (if any) of each of the applicants when he gives his consent.