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Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act (interpretation).
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18.—Section 2(1) of the Principal Act is amended by substituting the following for the definition of “orphan”:
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“ ‘orphan’ means a qualified child—
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(a) both of whose parents are dead, or
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(b) one of whose parents is dead or unknown or has abandoned and failed to provide for the child, as the case may be, and whose other parent—
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(i) is unknown, or
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(ii) has abandoned and failed to provide for the child,
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where that child is not residing with a parent, adoptive parent or step-parent;”.
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