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Children and Adoption Act 2006

Part 2 - Adoptions with a foreign element

12.Part 2 makes provision for the Secretary of State to suspend intercountry adoptions from a country if he has concerns about the practices there in connection with the adoption of children.

13.It also makes other provision for the following other matters relating to intercountry adoption:

  • providing a power for the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales to charge a fee to adopters or prospective adopters for services provided in relation to intercountry adoptions;

  • preventing an overlap of functions by local authorities where a child is brought into the country for the purposes of intercountry adoption; and

  • amending section 83 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 to make it harder for intercountry adopters to circumvent restrictions on bringing children into the UK.

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