Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001

Registration of adoption societies to provide intercountry adoption services

8.  In Article 4 of the 1987 Order (registration of adoption societies)—

(a) in paragraph (3)(a), after the words “may register the applicant” there shall be added the words

“so it may act either—

(i) in relation to facilities provided in respect of adoptions other than those mentioned in paragraph (3A); or

(ii) in relation to facilities provided in respect of any adoptions, including those mentioned in paragraph (3A)”;

(b) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(3A) The adoptions referred to in paragraph (3)(a)(i) and (ii) are—

(a) a Convention adoption;

(b) an adoption effected by a Convention adoption order;

(c) an overseas adoption;

(d) an adoption of a child habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man which is not a Convention adoption and is effected under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man; and

(e) an adoption of a child habitually resident outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man which is effected by an adoption order other than a Convention adoption order.”.