The Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 2nd July 2001, sections 9 and 14 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999, in so far as they amend the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (“the 1978 Act”). Section 9 inserts a new subsection into the 1978 Act, which provides that references to adoption in Part I of that Act are to the adoption of children, wherever they may be habitually resident, whether effected within or outside the British Islands. Section 14 inserts a new section into the 1978 Act, which provides that a person habitually resident in the British Islands is guilty of an offence if he brings a child who is habitually resident elsewhere into the United Kingdom for the purposes of adoption, without complying with such requirements as may be prescribed by the Scottish Ministers.