The full title of the Adoption of Children (Amendment) Act 1988 (Act no. 4/1988) was ‘An Ordinance to amend the Adoption of Children Ordinance 1965’. It was notified on 9 March 1988, became effective on 26 April 1988, and was repealed by the Adoption Act 1993 on 31 July 1993. This ordinance became an ACT Act on 11 May 1989.