SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6Amendments relating to parenthood in cases involving assisted reproduction

Part 2Enactments relating only to Scotland

Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4)

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1

Section 30 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (adoption by one person) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (7), for paragraph (c) substitute—

c

by virtue of the provisions specified in subsection (7A), there is no other parent, or

3

After subsection (7) insert—

7A

The provisions referred to in subsection (7)(c) are—

a

section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (disregarding subsections (5A) to (5I) of that section), or

b

sections 34 to 47 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (disregarding sections 39, 40 and 46 of that Act).