Children Act 1975

108 Amendments, repeals, commencement and transitory provisions

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section—

(a) the enactments specified in Schedule 3 shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule (being minor amendments or amendments consequential on the preceding provisions of this Act), and

(b) the enactments specified in Schedule 4 are repealed to the extent shown in column 3 of that Schedule.

(2) This Act, except the provisions specified in subsections (3) and (4), shall come into force on such date as the Secretary of State may by order appoint and different dates may be appointed for, or for different purposes of, different provisions.

(3) Sections 71, 72 and 82, this section, section 109 and paragraph 57 of Schedule ,3 shall come into force on the passing of this Act.

(4) The following provisions of this Act shall come into force on 1st January 1976—

(a) sections 3, 8(9) and (10), 13, 59, 83 to 91, 94, 98, 99, 100 and 103 to 107 ;

(b) Schedules 1 and 2 ;

(c) in Schedule 3, paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13(6) 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21(1) (2) and (4), 22 to 25, 27(b), 29, 33, 34 (b), 35, 36 (b), 38, 39 (c) (d) and (e), 40, 43, 48, 49, 51 (a), 52 (f) (ii) and (g) (ii), 54, 55, 58 to 63, 65 to 70, 75 (3), 77, 78, 81 and 83 ;

(d) Parts I, II and III of Schedule 4.

(5) Until the date appointed under subsection (2) for sections 4 to 7, in this Act and in the 1958 Act " adoption agency" means a local authority or a registered adoption society within the meaning of the 1958 Act.

(6) Until the date so appointed for section 12, section 5(1) of the 1958 Act shall, in relation to an application made after 31st December 1975 for an adoption order, have effect with the addition at the end of paragraph (b) of the following words “or

(c) has seriously ill-treated the child and that (whether because of the ill-treatment or for other reasons) the rehabilitation of the child within the household of that person is unlikely.”

(7) Until the date so appointed for section 18, section 21A of the [1969 c. 54.] Children and Young Persons Act 1969 shall have effect as if for references to section 25 there were substituted references to section 53 of the 1958 Act.

(8) An order under subsection (2) may make such transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions thereby brought into force, including such adaptations of those provisions or any provision of this Act then in force or any provision of the 1958 Act as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of the partial operation of this Act.