(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.