BE A.D. 1925. No. 1691. ******* An Act to amend the Electoral Code, 1908. [Assented to, December 17th, 1925.] E it Enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Parliament thereof, as follows: 1. (1) This Act may be cited alone as the "Electoral Code Short titles. Amendment Act, 1925." (2) The Electoral Acts, 1908 to 1920, and this Act may be cited together as the "Electoral Acts, 1908 to 1925." (3) The Electoral Code, 1908, is hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act." 2. The provisions of paragraph (c) of section 111 of the principal Act (which relates to the conditions under which a female elector may vote as an absent voter in case of ill-health or infirmity) shall apply also to male electors, and consequently the said section is amended (a) by striking out the words "being a female elector she " (b) by striking out the word "she" in the fourth and fifth authorised witnesses. 3. The declaration required to be made by a person voting as an Roadmasters to be absent voter, pursuant to Part III. of Chapter V. of the principal Act, may be made before any Roadmaster employed in the Railway Service Amendment of Illegal practices. Amendment of the principal Act, s. 5. Electoral Code Amendment Act.-1925. Service of the Commonwealth (hereinafter referred to as "a Roadmaster") or before any minister of religion in the same manner as it may now be made before a legally qualified medical practitioner; and when a declaration is made before a Roadmaster or minister of religion as allowed by this section all the provisions of the principal Act relating to the declarations of absent voters made before legally qualified medical practitioners, and to the method of voting to be adopted by such absent voters, shall apply, as if the term " Roadmaster" or "minister of religion" were substi tuted for the term "legally qualified medical practitioner" in the said provisions. 4. Section 186 of the principal Act is amended by striking out from paragraph (b) thereof the following passage-" within fortyeight hours before noon on polling day or ". 5. Section 5 of the principal Act (as amended by section 4 of the Electoral Code Amendment Act, 1913) is further amended by striking out in the definition of "Postmaster" therein, after the words "post office" the words "within the State". In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to R. E. E. ROGERS, Government Printer, North Terrace, Adelaide. BE A.D. 1925. No. 1692. An Act relating to the Adoption of Children. ***** [Assented to, December 17th, 1925.] E it Enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia, follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the "Adoption of Children Act, 1925." Short title. 2. In this Act, unless inconsistent with the context or some other Interpretation. meaning is clearly intended "Adopted child" means a child concerning whom an order of adoption has been made as herein provided: "Adopting parent means a person who is by any such order of adoption authorised to adopt a child; and in the case of an order being made in favor of a husband and wife on their joint application, means both the husband and the wife: Child " 66 66 means any boy or girl under the age of fifteen years: Court" or or "the Court" means a Special Magistrate and two Justices, one of whom shall be a Woman Justice: Deserted child" means any child who, in the opinion of the Court dealing with such child under the provisions of this Act, is deserted and has ceased to be cared for and maintained by its parents, or by such one of them as is living, or by the guardian of such child, or by the mother of such child if the child is illegitimate: "Unmarried" means not having a wife or husband (as the case may be) living at the time. 3. Upon By whom female child may be adopted. Cf. N.Z. Infants Act, 86 of 1908, s. 16. By whom male child may be adopted. Cf. ibid., s. 17. Consents required previous to adoption of child. Cf. ibid., s. 18. Adoption of Children Act.-1925. 3. Upon the application in writing, in the prescribed form, to the Court by (a) a husband and wife jointly, or (b) a married woman alone, but, if she is not legally separated from her husband, only with the written consent of her husband, or (c) any unmarried woman who is, in the opinion of the Court, at least eighteen years older than the child, or (d) any unmarried man who is, in the opinion of the Court, at least forty years older than the child, an order of adoption of a female child may be made by the Court. in favor of the applicant, in the prescribed form, and subject to the provisions of this Act. 4. Upon the application in writing, in the prescribed form, to the Court by (a) a husband and wife jointly, or (b) a married man alone, but, if he is not legally separated from his wife, only with the written consent of his wife, or (c) any unmarried man who is, in the opinion of the Court, at least eighteen years older than the child, or (d) any unmarried woman who is, in the opinion of the Court, at least forty years older than the child, an order of adoption of a male child may be made by the Court, in favor of the applicant, in the prescribed form, and subject to the provisions of this Act. 5. Before making such order of adoption, the Court- (c) shall be satisfied that the child is under the age of fifteen (d) shall |