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Adoption Act 1952 s 8

Adoption Act 1952 s 8

s 8 Provisions as to existing de facto adoptions

Where at the date of the commencement of this Act any child is in the custody of, and is being brought up, maintained and educated by any person or by two spouses jointly as his, her or their own child under any de facto adoption, and has for a period of not less than two years before such commencement been in such custody, and has been so brought up, maintained and educated, the Court may, upon the application of such person or spouses and notwithstanding that the applicant is a male and the child a female, make an adoption order authorizing him, her or them to adopt the child without requiring the consent of any parent or guardian of the child to be obtained, upon being satisfied that in all the circumstances of the case it is just and equitable and for the welfare of the child that no such consent should be required and that an adoption order should be made.

Malay text (authoritative)

Peruntukan mengenai pengangkatan de facto sedia ada

Jika pada tarikh permulaan kuat kuasa Akta ini mana-mana anak berada dalam jagaan, dan dibesarkan, ditanggung dan diberi pelajaran oleh mana-mana orang atau oleh pasangan suami isteri bersesama sebagai anaknya atau anak mereka sendiri di bawah mana-mana pengangkatan de facto, dan telah bagi tempoh tidak kurang daripada dua tahun sebelum permulaan kuat kuasa itu berada dalam jagaan itu, dan telah dibesarkan, ditanggung dan diberi pelajaran sedemikian, Mahkamah boleh, atas permohonan orang atau pasangan suami isteri itu dan walaupun pemohon itu seorang lelaki dan anak itu seorang perempuan, membuat suatu perintah pengangkatan yang membenarkannya atau mereka untuk mengangkat anak itu tanpa menghendaki persetujuan mana-mana ibu atau bapa atau penjaga anak itu diperoleh, setelah berpuas hati bahawa dalam segala hal keadaan kes itu adalah adil dan saksama dan bagi kebajikan anak itu bahawa tiada persetujuan sedemikian patut dikehendaki dan bahawa suatu perintah pengangkatan patut dibuat.

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Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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