PART IIREQUIREMENTS, PROCEDURE, RECOGNITION AND EFFECT OF ADOPTION IN NORTHERN IRELAND WHERE THE UNITED KINGDOM IS THE RECEIVING STATE

Duty of prospective adopter to notify HSS trust13

A prospective adopter to whom regulation 12 applies must within the period of fourteen days beginning with the date on which he brings the child into the United Kingdom give notice to the HSS trust within whose area he has his home (“the relevant HSS trust”) of–

a

his intention to apply for an adoption order to be made as a Convention adoption order in accordance with Article 22 of the 1987 Order; or

b

his intention not to give the child a home.