SCHEDULE 4U.K.References to adoption etc in enactments to be read as references to effect of parental order etc

British Nationality Act 1981U.K.

10.  In section 1 of the British Nationality Act 1981(1) (acquisition by birth or adoption)—

(a)the reference to an order authorising the adoption of a minor who is not a British citizen in subsection (5)(a) is to be read as including a reference to a parental order made under section 54 or section 54A of the 2008 Act in respect of a minor; and

(b)the reference to the adopter is to be read as including a reference to the person who obtained the parental order under section 54A of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and the reference, in relation to the case of a joint adoption, to one of the adopters as including a reference to one of the persons who obtained the parental order under section 54 of the 2008 Act.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 4 para. 10 in force at 21.12.2018, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

1981 c. 61. Section 1 has been amended, but no amendments are relevant.