{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-act-1976/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-act-1976/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1976/36",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption Act 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-act-1976",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous enactments.",
  "text": "(1) Section 39 does not apply for the purposes of section 1 of and Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1949 or Schedule 1 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (prohibited degrees of kindred and affinity), or sections 64 and 65 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (sex with an adult relative).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . section 39 does not apply for the purposes of any provision of—\n(a) the British Nationality Act 1981\n(b) the Immigration Act 1971,\n(c) any instrument having effect under an enactment within paragraph (a) or (b), or\n(d) any other provision of the law for the time being in force which determines British citizenship, British Dependent Territories citizenship, the status of a British National (Overseas) or British Overseas citizenship.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4)(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships and Consequential, etc. Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3129), art. 1, Sch. 4 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 47(1) substituted (8.7.2008) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), s. 153(2)(e), Sch. 15 para. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(8), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(6), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.I. 1986/948, art. 8, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 47(3) repealed by Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50, SIF 113:1), s. 86, Sch. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 47(4)(5) repealed by Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7, SIF 113:1), ss. 16, 19(3), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 77(62)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 47 restricted by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 64(6)(a) (as inserted (8.7.2008) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), s. 153(2)(e), Sch. 15 para. 5(5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 47 restricted by Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42), s. 65(6)(a) (as inserted (8.7.2008) by Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c. 4), s. 153(2)(e), Sch. 15 para. 6(5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "excluded by 2008 c. 4, s. 67E(12) (as inserted)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/36/section/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:30:09.141788+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}