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Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

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450: Adoption Act 1955 amended

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"Changes to the Adoption Act 1955 made by the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989"

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The Adoption Act 1955 has been changed by the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989. You can find these changes in the Act(s). If you were taking care of a child in your home under a special licence before this change happened, you can still keep taking care of that child for 6 months without having to follow some of the rules in section 6 of the Adoption Act 1955.

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Family and relationships > Adoption and guardianship
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Part 11Amendments to other enactments, repeals, savings, and transitional provisions
Amendments to other enactments

450Adoption Act 1955 amended

  1. Amendment(s) incorporated in the Act(s).

  2. Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1), where, immediately before the commencement of this section, any person has a child in that person's home for care under a licence or warrant of exemption granted under section 73 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1974, nothing in section 6 of the Adoption Act 1955 shall apply, during the period of 6 months beginning on the date of the commencement of this section, to the keeping of that child by that person.