CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002) 72 Effect of adoption on marriage62 (1) With effect from the date of commencement of the Children’s Protection and Adoption Amendment Act, 2001, no marriage shall be contracted between an adopter and a person adopted by him. (2) For the avoidance of doubt, subsection (1) shall not affect the validity of a marriage contracted before it was amended by the Children’s Protection and Adoption Amendment Act, 2001 73 Publication of advertisements for adoption (1) No person shall insert in a newspaper published in Zimbabwe an advertisement or other intimation that any person desires any minor to be adopted or that any person is willing to adopt any minor, unless such publisher has first received the written permission of the Director to insert such advertisement or intimation. (1a)63 Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (2)64 A person convicted of an offence under subsection (1a) may, in addition to any other penalty imposed upon him, be ordered by the court before which he is tried to reveal the name and address, if known to him, of any person concerned in any advertisement or intimation which is the subject of the prosecution, and upon his refusal to comply with such order he may, in addition to any penalty imposed on him for the said offence, be committed to prison for a period not exceeding one month or until such time as he has so complied, whichever is the shorter time. 74 Accessibility of records relating to adoption Notwithstanding anything in any other law contained, the records of proceedings of a court in terms of this Part shall not be open to inspection or be accessible to the public except with the permission of that court. 75 Appeals (1) Any person who is aggrieved by any order or decision made by a children's court in terms of this Part may appeal against that order or decision to a judge of the High Court who may refer the matter to the court for argument. (2) An appeal in terms of subsection (1) shall be heard in private and no person other than those permitted by the judge or the court, as the case may be, shall be present at the hearing thereof. (3) The judge of the High Court or the court, as the case may be, may, in any appeal in terms of subsection (1), confirm, vary or set aside the order or decision appealed against or give such judgment or make any determination or order as the circumstances may require. PART VIIA65 FOREIGN ADOPTIONS 75A Application of Part This part shall apply to any adoption order made in⎯ (a) a designated country, whether the order was made before, on or after the date of commencement of the Children’s Protection and Adoption Amendment Act, 2001, or the declaration of that country as a designated country; (b) a foreign country which is not a designated country, whether the order was made before, on or after the date of commencement of the Children’s Protection and Adoption Amendment Act, 2001. 75B Designated countries The Minister may by statutory instrument declare that any country shall be a designated country for the purposes of this Act. 38