(1) Notwithstanding anything contained
elsewhere in this Chapter, the Board may accord priority to those
applicants who have applied for the adoption of minors in need of
special care and select families to that effect.
Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, the term
“minors in need of special care” means those minors, out of orphan
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minors or voluntarily abandoned minors, who are in need of special
care due to physical or mental condition, unusual or abnormal
growth or more age.
(2) The Board shall determine as to whether any minor is a
minor in need of special care or not.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
if, in selecting the families and the minors in need of special care
pursuant to that sub-section, any detail relating to the age, sex and
health of the minor as demanded by a family in the first order of
priority does not match, those minors in need of special care who
match to the details as demanded by such family may be selected
respectively.
(4) The other procedures on the selection of families for
minors in need of special care and classification of such minors
shall be as prescribed by the Government of Nepal.