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Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999

Miscellaneous and supplemental – sections 14 to 18

Section 18.   Short title, interpretation commencement and extent

76.Subsection (1) provides the Act its short title.

77.Subsection (2) defines "the 1976 Act" and "the 1978 Act" and "the Convention".

78.Subsection (3) empowers the Secretary of State to make orders bringing the Act into force in whole or in part and at different times.

79.Subsections (4) and (5) provide for the Act to extend to Great Britain save for amendments to those statutes which have a wider extent (British Nationality Act 1981, Immigration Act 1971).

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