The Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Scotland) Regulations 2009

Functions of the local authority following child’s entry into the United Kingdom

This section has no associated Executive Note

27.—(1) Where notice is given to a local authority in accordance with regulation 26, the functions imposed on the authority by virtue of regulation 5 apply subject to the modifications in paragraph (2).

(2) Paragraph (2) of regulation 5 applies as if–

(a)in sub-paragraph (a)–

(i)in paragraph (i) for “relevant foreign authority” there were substituted “CA of the State of origin and competent authorities of the State of origin”;

(ii)for paragraph (v) there were substituted–

(v)the Central Authority; and

(b)sub-paragraphs (b) to (d) were omitted.