Part 1Adoption

Chapter 3Placement for adoption and adoption orders

Placement and adoption: general

55 Revocation of adoptions on legitimation

(1)

Where any child adopted by one natural parent as sole adoptive parent subsequently becomes a legitimated person on the marriage of the natural parents, the court by which the adoption order was made may, on the application of any of the parties concerned, revoke the order.

(2)

In relation to an adoption order made by a magistrates’ court, the reference in subsection (1) to the court by which the order was made includes a court acting for the same F1local justice area.