16.Section 1 enables the Secretary of State to make regulations to give effect to the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption, concluded at the Hague on 29 May 1993 (the Hague Convention). The material parts of the text of the Convention are included as Schedule 1 of the Act.
17.The Regulations may apply and modify any provision of the enactments relating to adoption and create criminal offences. Regulations are to be made by statutory instrument.