§ 16. Lieut.-Colonel Rees-Williamsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will take the 2085 necessary steps to extend the provisions of the Adoption of Children Act, 1926, so as to provide for the adoption by persons of British nationality of foreign children.
§ Mr. EdeThe object of the provision in the Act of 1926 excluding any infant who is not a British subject was, I understand, to prevent any conflict between the legal status of the child in this country and his legal status under the law of the foreign country of which he is a national. Whether it is necessary to retain or modify this limitation will be considered whenever there is amending legislation, but I am not in a position to hold out any hope of such legislation in the near future.