The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018

2.  Section 1(1) (considerations applying to the exercise of powers) is modified as follows—

(a) the words “or adoption agency” were omitted in each place they appear;

(b) in subsection (1), for “the adoption of” there were substituted “the making of a parental order in relation to”;

(c) in subsection (4), the words “or agency” were omitted in each place they appear;

(d) in subsection (4)(c) for “an adopted person” there were substituted “the subject of a parental order”;

(e) in subsection (4)(f) the words from “including” to the end were omitted;

(f) subsection (5) were omitted;

(g) in subsection (6)—

(i) for “the adoption of” there were substituted “the making of a parental order in relation to”;

(ii) after “whether” there were inserted “under section 54 or section 54A (as the case may be) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008”;

(iii) after the words “this Act”, where they first appear, there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Parental Order Regulations)”; and

(iv) for “any order under this Act” there were substituted “an order under either of those sections or under this Act as so applied”; and

(h) in subsection (7)—

(i) for “the adoption of” there were substituted “the making of a parental order in relation to”’

(ii) for the words from “include” to “variation of such an order,” in paragraph (a) there were substituted “include a parental order (or the revocation of such an order),”;

(iii) the words “adoption agency or” in paragraph (b) were omitted; and

(iv) at the end the words “as modified” were inserted.

(1)

Section 1 was amended by sections 3 and 9 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6) and section 9 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16).