Article 5

Subject to the provisions of Article 15 of this Order, where the children's officer of the Middlesex County Council is immediately before 1st April 1965 acting as the guardian ad litem for the purpose of an application for an adoption order under the Adoption Act 1958, the children's officer of the successor authority in whose area the place where the child who is the subject of the application was residing when the children's officer was appointed guardian ad litem shall, on and after 1st April 1965, be deemed to have been duly appointed guardian ad litem for that purpose.