Under Section 9(1) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, who can give a child in adoption?

Section 9(1) says "No person except the father or mother or the guardian of a child shall have the capacity to give the child in adoption." The old Hindu law put the mother's right after the father's, but under section 9(2) both now have an equal right, and other relatives have no capacity unless they are the guardian.