CHAPTER 54 - ADOPTION ACT: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

INDEX TO SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

Adoption Societies Regulations

Adoption (Transfer Abroad) Regulations

Adoption (Forms) Regulations

Adoption Rules

Adoption (Fees) Regulations

ADOPTION SOCIETIES REGULATIONS

[Section 37]

[Currency mentioned in this regulation should be re-denominated as stipulated under S 4 of Re-denomination Act, 2012, read with S 29 of Bank of Zambia Act, 1996.]

Arrangement of Regulations

   Regulation

   1.   Title

   2.   Application for registration

   3.   Registration fee

   4.   Duties of adoption society prior to acceptance of infant

   5.   Duties of adoption society prior to placement

   6.   Duties of case committee

   7.   Annual reports of adoption society to be sent to Commissioner for Juvenile Welfare

   8.   Care of infants accepted by adoption society

      FIRST SCHEDULE

      SECOND SCHEDULE

      THIRD SCHEDULE

      FOURTH SCHEDULE

[Regulations by the Minister]

Act 13 of 1994,

GN 192 of 1956.

1. Title

These Regulations may be cited as the Adoption Societies Regulations.

2. Application for registration

Every application for the registration of an adoption society under section 19 of the Act shall be made in the form, and shall give the particulars, set out in the First Schedule.

3. Registration fee

The registration fee to be paid by an adoption society to the Commissioner for Juvenile Welfare shall be 75 fee units.

[Am by Act 13 of 1994.]

4. Duties of adoption society prior to acceptance of infant

Where the parent or guardian of a child proposes to place an infant at the disposition of a registered adoption society with a view to the infant’s adoption, the society—

      (a)   shall furnish the parent or guardian with a memorandum in the form set out in the Second Schedule; and

      (b)   shall not accept the infant unless the parent or guardian has signed and delivered to the society a certificate (which the society shall retain) in the form set out in the Second Schedule, that he has read and understood the said memorandum.

5. Duties of adoption society prior to placement

In the case of every infant proposed to be delivered by or on behalf of a registered adoption society into the care and possession of an adopter—

      (a)   the society shall make inquiries and obtain reports on the points set out in the Third Schedule; and the report obtained on the health of the infant shall be signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner; and

      (b)   the case shall be considered by a committee (to be called a "case committee") appointed by the society for the purpose and consisting of not less than three persons.