Hong Kong Ordinances

HIGH COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 26

Wards of court

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, no infant shall be made a ward
of court except by virtue of an order to that effect made by the
Court of First Instance.

(2) Where application is made for such an order in respect of an infant, the
infant shall become a ward of court on the making of the application, but
shall cease to be a ward of court at the expiration of such period as may be
prescribed by rules of court unless within that period an order has been made
in accordance with the application.

(3) The Court of First Instance may, either upon an application in that behalf
or without such an application, order that any infant who is for the time
being a ward of court shall cease to be a ward of court. (Amended 25 of 1998
s. 2) [cf. 1949 c. 100 s. 9 U.K.]