Adoption of Children. |Ch. 29. No. 7.

child to be returned to the Board, and the Board shall
receive the child accordingly.

(4) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this
section shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprison-
ment for a term of six months, or to a fine of two hundred
and fifty dollars or to both such imprisonment and such
fine, and the court by which the offender is convicted may
order any child in respect of whom the offence is committed
to besreturned to his parents or guardian or to the Board,

7. Where any person has made representations to the
Board with a view to the adoption of a child, and the
Board is of the opinion that the adoption of the child by such
person would not be in the best interests of the child, the
Board shall notify) such person accordingly, and such
person may appeal trom the decision of the Board to a Judge
of the Supreme Court in a summary way

8. Where the child in respect of whom an adoption order
is sought is an inmate of a certified school as defined by
section 29 of the Children Ordinance, the managers of the
school may, with the consent of the Governor, and notwith-
standing anything contained in section 56 or section 57 of the
said Ordinance, sanction the unconditional release of the
child from the school for the purposes of the adoption,

9. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations——-

(a) for regulating the conduct of negotiations entered

into by or on behalf of the Board with persons having

the care and possession of children who are desirous

of causing children to be adopted, and in particular
for securing

(i) that, where the parent or guardian of a

child proposes to place the child at the disposition

of the Board with a view to the child being

adopted, he shall be furnished with a memorandum

in the prescribed form explaining in ordinary

language the effect, in relation to his rights as a

parent or guardian, of the making of an adoption

order in respect of the child, and calling attention

to the provisions of this Ordinance and of any

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