Section 21, The Adoption Act, 1989 Short title

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Court may, upon the recommend -dation of the Chief Social Development Officer, and subject to such conditions and restrictions as it may deem fit, make an order authorizing the care and possession of the juvenile for whom an adoption order has been made to be transferred to a person resident outside Sierra Leone. (2) An order shall not be made under this section unless the court is satisfied that any person whose consent is required under section 4 for the making of an adoption order has in fact consented to the application under this section: Provided that the consent of that person can properly be dispensed with in accordance with section 4. (3) An order shall be made under this section unless the court is satisfied that the person to whom the care and possession of the juvenile is proposed to be transferred is a suitable person to be entrusted therein, and the transfer is likely to be for the welfare of the juvenile, due consideration, for this purpose, being given to the wishes of the juvenile, having regard to the age and understanding of the juvenile. Adoption 1!}S9 Passed in parliament this 21st day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine. C. B. FOFANA Clerk of Parliament THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed Parliament and found by true and correctly printed Copy of the said Bill. ' C. B Fofana Clerk of Parliament