S.L. 16.5 Art. 2Definition of "overseas adoption". Cap. 16.

For the purposes of article 113(2)(d) of the Civil Code, an "overseas adoption" shall include an adoption, whether made in

Malta or in a State listed in the Second Schedule, carried out in accordance with the "Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption" concluded at The Hague on the 29th May, 1993 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Convention') and included in the First Schedule, whereby a child habitually resident in one contracting State to the said Convention (hereinafter referred to as "the State of origin") has been, is being or is to be moved to another contracting State (hereinafter referred to as "the receiving State") either after his or her adoption in his or her State of origin by spouses or by a person habitually resident in the receiving State or for the purposes of such an adoption in the receiving State or in the State of origin, provided that all the conditions of this order have been complied with.