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This implied to him that the role of the authority ceased upon the child's death and the right and duty to bury reverted to the natural parents.
The use of the words "all the rights and duties" and "any element" emphasised the universality of the rights and duties involved.
This seems to me an important provision. Even though the child is not placed with adoptive parents the parental rights and duties, as already widely defined by Article 2 vested in the Adoption Agency when the Freeing Order was made on 7 January 2003.
We have therefore a position where the parental rights and duties widely defined are vested in the Adoption Agency, which in this case is the Trust at the time of the Freeing Order and simultaneously that order applies Article 12(3) as if there had been an actual adoption and operates to extinguish the parental rights and duties of the person who was the parent before the making of the order.
This language seems to me clear and unambiguous in its effect. Article 12(1) and (2) are consistent with that view.
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