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Part 1 Adoption
- 1 Considerations applying to the exercise of powers
- 2 Basic definitions
- 3 Maintenance of Adoption Service
- 4 Assessments etc for adoption support services
- 5 Local authority plans for adoption services
- 6 Arrangements on cancellation of registration
- 7 Inactive or defunct adoption societies etc
- 8 Adoption support agencies
- 9 General power to regulate adoption etc agencies
- 10 Management etc of agencies
- 11 Fees
- 12 Independent review of determinations
- 13 Information concerning adoption
- 14 Default power of appropriate Minister
- 15 Inspection of premises etc
- 16 Distribution of functions in relation to registered adoption societies
- 17 Inquiries
- 18 Placement for adoption by agencies
- 19 Placing children with parental consent
- 20 Advance consent to adoption
- 21 Placement orders
- 22 Applications for placement orders
- 23 Varying placement orders
- 24 Revoking placement orders
- 25 Parental responsibility
- 26 Contact
- 27 Contact: supplementary
- 28 Further consequences of placement
- 29 Further consequences of placement orders
- 30 General prohibitions on removal
- 31 Recovery by parent etc where child not placed or is a baby
- 32 Recovery by parent etc where child placed and consent withdrawn
- 33 Recovery by parent etc where child placed and placement order refused
- 34 Placement orders: prohibition on removal
- 35 Return of child in other cases
- 36 Restrictions on removal
- 37 Applicants for adoption
- 38 Local authority foster parents
- 39 Partners of parents
- 40 Other non-agency cases
- 42 Child to live with adopters before application
- 43 Reports where child placed by agency
- 44 Notice of intention to adopt
- 45 Suitability of adopters
- 46 Adoption orders
- 47 Conditions for making adoption orders
- 48 Restrictions on making adoption orders
- 49 Applications for adoption
- 50 Adoption by couple
- 51 Adoption by one person
- 52 Parental etc consent
- 53 Modification of 1989 Act in relation to adoption
- 54 Disclosing information during adoption process
- 55 Revocation of adoptions on legitimation
- 56 Information to be kept about a person's adoption
- 57 Restrictions on disclosure of protected etc information
- 58 Disclosure of other information
- 59 Offence
- 60 Disclosing information to adopted adult
- 61 Disclosing protected information about adults
- 62 Disclosing protected information about children
- 63 Counselling
- 64 Other provision to be made by regulations
- 65 Sections 56 to 65: interpretation
- 66 Meaning of adoption in Chapter 4
- 67 Status conferred by adoption
- 68 Adoptive relatives
- 69 Rules of interpretation for instruments concerning property
- 70 Dispositions depending on date of birth
- 71 Property devolving with peerages etc
- 72 Protection of trustees and personal representatives
- 73 Meaning of disposition
- 74 Miscellaneous enactments
- 75 Pensions
- 76 Insurance
- 77 Adopted Children Register
- 78 Searches and copies
- 79 Connections between the register and birth records
- 82 Interpretation
- 83 Restriction on bringing children in
- 84 Giving parental responsibility prior to adoption abroad
- 85 Restriction on taking children out
- 86 Power to modify sections 83 and 85
- 88 Modification of section 67 for Hague Convention adoptions
- 89 Annulment etc of overseas or Hague Convention adoptions
- 90 Section 89: supplementary
- 91 Overseas determinations and orders
- 92 Restriction on arranging adoptions etc
- 93 Offence of breaching restrictions under section 92
- 94 Restriction on reports
- 95 Prohibition of certain payments
- 96 Excepted payments
- 97 Sections 92 to 96: interpretation
- 102 Officers of the Service
- 103 Right of officers of the Service to have access to adoption agency records
- 105 Effect of certain Scottish orders and provisions
- 106 Effect of certain Northern Irish orders and provisions
- 107 Use of adoption records from other parts of the British Islands
- 108 Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
- 111 Parental responsibility of unmarried father
- 112 Acquisition of parental responsibility by step-parent
- 113 Section 8 orders: local authority foster parents
- 114 Residence orders: extension to age of 18
- 115 Special guardianship
- 116 Accommodation of children in need etc
- 117 Inquiries by local authorities into representations
- 118 Review of cases of looked after children
- 119 Advocacy services
- 120 Meaning of “harm” in the 1989 Act
- 121 Care plans
- 122 Interests of children in proceedings
- 125 Adoption and Children Act Register
- 126 Use of an organisation to establish the register
- 127 Use of an organisation as agency for payments
- 128 Supply of information for the register
- 129 Disclosure of information
- 130 Territorial application
- 131 Supplementary
- 132 Amendment of Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978: contravention of sections 30 to 36 of this Act
- 133 Scottish restriction on bringing children into or out of United Kingdom
- 134 Amendment of Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978: overseas adoptions
- 135 Adoption and fostering: criminal records
- 136 Payment of grants in connection with welfare services
- 137 Extension of the Hague Convention to British overseas territories
- 138 Proceedings in Great Britain
- 139 Amendments, transitional and transitory provisions, savings and repeals
- 140 Orders, rules and regulations
- 141 Rules of procedure
- 142 Supplementary and consequential provision
- 143 Offences by bodies corporate and unincorporated bodies
- 144 General interpretation etc
- 145 Devolution: Wales
- 146 Expenses
- 147 Glossary
- 148 Commencement
- 149 Extent
- 150 Short title
- SCHEDULE 1 Registration of Adoptions
- SCHEDULE 2 Disclosure of Birth Records by Registrar General
- SCHEDULE 3 Minor and Consequential Amendments
- SCHEDULE 4 Transitional and Transitory Provisions and Savings
- SCHEDULE 5 Repeals
- SCHEDULE 6 Glossary
The Adoption Service
Regulations
Supplemental
Placement of children by adoption agency for adoption
Removal of children who are or may be placed by adoption agencies
Removal of children in non-agency cases
Breach of restrictions on removal
Preliminaries to adoption
The making of adoption orders
Placement and adoption: general
Disclosure of information in relation to a person's adoption
Adopted Children Register etc
Adoption Contact Register
General
Bringing children into and out of the United Kingdom
Overseas adoptions
Miscellaneous
Restrictions
Information
Proceedings
The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service
Evidence
Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Islands
General
Part 2 Amendments of the Children Act 1989
Part 3 Miscellaneous and Final Provisions
Advertisements in the United Kingdom
Adoption and Children Act Register
Other miscellaneous provisions
Amendments etc
Practice Areas
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