The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018

17.  Article 51(1), (2) (3), (4), (6) and (7) (registration of adoption orders) has effect as if—

(a) for paragraph (1) there were substituted—

“(1) Every parental order shall contain a direction to the Registrar General to make in the Parental Order Register an entry in the form set out in Schedule 2 (as applied with modifications by regulation 4 of and Schedule 3 to the Parental Order Regulations) and shall specify the particulars to be entered in columns 2 to 6 of that Schedule.”;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (b) for the words “Adopted Children Register” there were substituted “Parental Orders Register”; and

(ii) in sub-paragraph (c) for the words “adoption order” there were substituted “parental order”;

(c) in paragraph (3)—

(i) for “Adopted Children Register under the heading in column 2 of Schedule 2” there were substituted “Parental Order Register under the heading in column 2 of Schedule 2 (as applied with modifications by regulation 4 of and Schedule 3 to the Parental Order Regulations)”;

(ii) the word “and” at the end sub-paragraph (a) were omitted; and

(iii) sub-paragraph (b) were omitted;

(d) in paragraph (4)—

(i) for “application for an adoption order” to “time in force)” there were substituted “application for a parental order”;

(ii) for the words “any adoption order”, in each place it appears, there were substituted “any parental order”;

(iii) for “marked with the word “Adopted”” there were substituted “marked with the words “Re-registered by the Registrar General””;

(e) in paragraph (6) for “an adoption order shall cause the adoption order” there were substituted “a parental order shall cause the order”; and

(f) in paragraph (7)—

(i) for the words “an adoption order” in each place they appear there were substituted “a parental order”;

(ii) after “paragraph (6)” there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 4 of and Schedule 3 to the Parental Order Regulations)”;

(iii) for “has been granted” there were substituted “has been made”; and

(iv) the words “or the country in which the child was previously adopted” and the words from “or the Adopted Children Register” to “the case may be,” were omitted.