Re Barlow and Hohaia - [1986] 2 NZLR 60

Husband and wife — Restrictions on marriage — Forbidden marriages — Effect of adoption order — Application for Court's consent to the marriage of an uncle to his adopted niece — Whether the couple were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and thus prohibited from marrying — Marriage Act 1955, s 15(2) — Adoption Act 1955, s 16(2)(b).