Application for revocation of order freeing a child for adoption
4A.12.—(1) An application under Article 20(1) for an order revoking an order freeing the child for adoption shall be made in Form A6.
(2) Notice of proceedings in Form A7 shall be served by the applicant on all parties and on any adoption agency which has parental responsibility for the child by virtue of Articles 17, 18 or 21, sections 18 or 21 of the 1976 Act or sections 18 or 21 of the 1978 Act save that notice shall not be served on a party to the proceedings who was joined as a party by virtue of rule 4A.3(2)(a).
(3) As soon as practicable after receipt of the application, the Master shall list the case for hearing by a judge and shall appoint a guardian ad litem of the child in accordance with rule 4A.5 and shall send to him a copy of the application and any documents attached thereto.
(4) The guardian ad litem shall have the same duties as if he had been appointed under rule 4A.5 but as if in that rule: –
(a)the reference to an order freeing the child for adoption was a reference to the revocation of an order freeing the child for adoption; and
(b)each reference to the report supplied by the applicant was omitted.