SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2S Amendments of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978

24In section 51 (prohibition on certain payments)—

(a)in subsection (1), after the word “section” insert “ and of section 51A(3) ”;

(b)in subsection (2), for the words “the court may order any child in respect of whom the offence was committed” substitute “ without prejudice to any power which the court has to make any other order in relation to the child as respects whom the offence was committed, it may order him ”;

(c)in subsection (5)—

(i)at the beginning insert “ Subject to section 51B, ”; and

(ii)at the end add “ (including any such payment made by virtue of section 51B) ”; and

(d)subsections (6)(a) and (7) to (11) shall cease to have effect.