16In section 24 (restrictions on making adoption orders), for subsection (2) substitute—
“(2)The court may make an adoption order in relation to a child even where it is found that the applicants have, as respects the child, contravened section 51.
(3)In considering whether to make an adoption order or an order under section 18(1), the court shall regard the welfare of the child concerned as its paramount consideration and shall not make the order in question unless it considers that it would be better for the child that it should do so than that it should not.”.