The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005

Convention list

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41.—(1) The relevant Central Authority is to maintain a Convention list of children who are notified to that Authority under regulation 40 and shall make the contents of that list available for consultation by other Authorities within the British Islands.

(2) Where an adoption agency—

(a)places for adoption a child whose details have been notified to the relevant Central Authority under regulation 40; or

(b)determines that an adoption in accordance with the Convention is no longer in the best interests of the child,

it must notify the relevant Central Authority accordingly and that Authority must remove the details relating to that child from the Convention list.