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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 10Amendments of Adoption Legislation

Part IIAmendments of Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 28)

32In section 11 (restrictions on arranging of adoptions and placing of children) for subsection (2) there shall be substituted—

(2)An adoption society which is—

(a)approved as respects England and Wales under section 3 of the [1976 c. 36.] Adoption Act 1976; or

(b)registered as respects Northern Ireland under Article 4 of the [S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22).] Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987,

but which is not approved under section 3 of this Act, shall not act as an adoption society in Scotland except to the extent that the society considers it necessary to do so in the interests of a person mentioned in section 1 of that Act or, as the case may be, Article 3 of that Order.