Section 198: Special provision relating to selection of families for minors in need of special care

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 minors or voluntarily abandoned minors, who are in need of special care due to physical or mental condition, unusual or abnormal growth or older age.

2) The Board shall determine 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.