3 Orders as to parental rights.S

(1)Any person claiming interest may make an application to the court for an order relating to parental rights and the court may make such order relating to parental rights as it thinks fit.

(2)In any proceedings relating to parental rights the court shall regard the welfare of the child involved as the paramount consideration and shall not make any order relating to parental rights unless it is satisfied that to do so will be in the interests of the child.

(3)Any person appointed by a court to be a tutor to a child shall, unless the court otherwise orders, become curator to the child when the child attains the age of minority.