96 Ch. 29. No. 7.] Adoption of Children.

 

(2) An adoption order shall not deprive the adopted
child of any right to or interest in property to which, but for
the order, the child would have been entitled under any
intestacy or disposition whether occurring or made before
or after the making of the adoption order, or confer on the
adopted child any right to or interest in property as a child
of the adopter, and the expressions “ child ’’, ‘“‘ children ”’
and “issue ’’ where used in any disposition whether made
before or after the making of an adoption order, shall not,
unless the contrary intention appears, include an adopted
child or children or the issue of an adopted child.

(3) Where an adopted child or the spouse or issue of
an adopted child takes any interest in real or personal
property under a disposition by the adopter, or where an
adopter takes any interest in real or personal property under
a disposition by an adopted child or the spouse or issue of an
adopted child, any succession, Iegacy or other duty which
becomes leviable in respect thereof shall be payable at the
same rate as if the adopted child had been a child born to
the adopter in lawful wedlock.

(4) For the purposes of this section disposition
means an assurance of any interest in property by any
instrument whether zuter vivos or by will including codicil.

(5) For the purposes of the Friendly Societies
Ordinance, which enables societies to insure money to be
paid for funeral expenses, and which restricts the persons to
whom monev may be paid on the death of a child under the
age of ten, the adopter shall be deemed to be the parent of
the child; and where before the adoption order was made
any such insurance had been effected by the natural parent
of the child, the rights and Jiabilities under the policy shall
by virtue of the adoption order be transferred to the adopter,
and the adopter shall, for the purposes of the said Ordinance,
be treated as the person who took out the policy.

Power to 16. An adoption order or an interim order may be made
subsequent in respect of a child who has already been the subject of an
order in adoption order, and, upon any application for such further

respect of yy adoption order, the adopter or adopters under the adoption

subject to order last previously made shall, if living, be deemed to be

an order, the parent or parents of the child for all the purposes of this
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Ordinance.