SCHEDULE 1APPLICATION OF THE ADOPTION (SCOTLAND) ACT 1978 IN RELATION TO PARENTAL ORDERS AND APPLICATIONS FOR SUCH ORDERS

Section 55

11.  Section 55 shall have effect as follows:–

Evidence of agreement or consent

55.(1) Any agreement or consent which is required by section 30 of the 1990 Act to be given to the making of a parental order or application for an order may be given in writing and, if the document signifying the agreement or consent is witnessed in accordance with rules, it shall be sufficient evidence without further proof of the signature of the person by whom it was executed.

(2) A document signifying such agreement or consent which purports to be witnessed in accordance with rules, shall be presumed to be so witnessed, and to have been executed and witnessed on the date and at the place specified in the document, unless the contrary is proved..