Explanatory Memorandum

Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) (Northern Ireland) 2001

2001 CHAPTER 11

2 July 2001

Intercountry Adoptions - Sections 7 to 11

Section 8 - Registration of adoption societies to provide intercountry adoption services

31.Section 8amends Article 4 of the 1987 Order (registration of adoption societies). The amendments provide that a voluntary adoption society may be approved to act as an adoption agency in relation either to adoptions which are not intercountry adoptions, or to all adoptions including intercountry adoptions.