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Adoption Act 1984
66Recognition of Australasian adoptions
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66 Recognition of Australasian adoptions
(1) For the purposes of the laws of Victoria, the adoption of a person (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) in another State, or in a Territory, in accordance with the law of that State or Territory has, so long as it has not been rescinded under the law in force in that State or Territory, the same effect as an adoption order made in Victoria, and has no other effect.
S. 66(2) inserted by No. 32/2000 s. 7(2).
(2) This section, as in force immediately before the commencement of section 7 of the **Adoption (Amendment) Act 2000**, continues to apply in respect of the adoption of a person in New Zealand before that commencement.
No. 7147 s. 42.