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Child Care Act, 1983 (Act No. 74 of 1983)

Chapter 4 : Adoptions

23. Adoption of adopted child

 

1) An adopted child shall be capable of adoption, and upon the making of an order for the adoption of a previously adopted child all the legal consequences of the earlier adoption shall terminate, save in so far as the adopted child has acquired any property by virtue of the earlier adoption.

 

2) For the purposes of any proceedings for the adoption of a child who has been previously adopted the parents who previously adopted the child shall have the rights and be subject to the obligations conferred and imposed upon parents by any provision of this Chapter, and the expressions "parent" and "parents" shall in any such provision be construed accordingly.