Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 No. 18

Prospective

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 N.I. Transitional and transitory provisions and savings

Advertising N.I.

6.  In Article 60 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (restrictions on advertisements)— N.I.

(a) after paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A) Publishing an advertisement includes doing so by electronic means (for example, by means of the internet).”;

(b) in paragraph (2), for the words following “conviction” substitute “to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 4 para. 6 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 160(1)