PART IIIADOPTION ORDERS
Supplemental
Care, etc., of child on refusal of adoption order27
1
Where on an application for an adoption order in relation to a child the court refuses to make the adoption order then—
a
if it appears to the court that there are exceptional circumstances making it desirable that the child should be under the supervision of an independent person, the court may order that the child shall be under the supervision of a specified Board;
b
if it appears to the court that there are exceptional circumstances making it impracticable or undesirable for the child to be entrusted to either of the parents or to any other individual, the court may by order commit the child to the care of a specified Board.
2
Where the court makes an order under paragraph (1)(b) the order may require the payment by either or each parent to the Board, while it has the care of the child, of such weekly or other periodical sum towards the maintenance of the child as the court thinks reasonable.