Article 36 Amendments to the Adoption Rules 1984

In Form 1–

(a)

for the second paragraph of the Notes there shall be substituted “If the application is made to a county court, it may be made to any county court which has been designated as a divorce county court under section 33 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984”^f1;

(b)

for the words “In the matter of the Adoption Act 1958 and in the matter of the Children Act 1975 and” there shall be substituted the words “In the matter of the Adoption Act 1976 and”;

(c)

in paragraph 7, for the word “Care” there shall be substituted the word “Home”;

(d)

the following shall be substituted for paragraph 8:

“8

The child is being looked after by (who have parental responsibility for the child).”;

(e)

in paragraph 11–

(i)

for the words “The chid is illegitimate” there shall be substituted the words “The child’s parents were not married to each other at the time of his birth”;

(ii)

for the words “the custody” there shall be substituted the words “an order under section 4(1)(a) of the Children Act 1989 or for a residence order in respect”;

(f)

in the note to paragraph 3, for the words from “If the child is illegitimate” to the end there shall be substituted the words “If the child’s parents were not married to each other at the time of his birth and the father has parental responsibility for the child, give details under paragraph 12 of the court order or the agreement which provides for parental responsibility”;

(g)

in the note to paragraph 4 after the words “court of competent jurisdiction” there shall be inserted the words “, or under section 5 of the Children Act 1989,”;

(h)

in the note to paragraphs 5 and 6–

(i)

for the words “an illegitimate child” there shall be substituted the words “a child whose parents were not married to each other at the time of his birth”;

(ii)

for the words “custody of” there shall be substituted the words “parental responsibility for”;

(iii)

after the words “of a court order” there shall be inserted the words “or by agreement or he has a residence order in respect of the child”; and

(iv)

for the words “section 12(2) of the 1975 Act” there shall be substituted the words “section 16(2) of the Act”; and

(i)

in the note to paragraph 8, for the words “in the care of” there shall be substituted the words “being looked after by”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1984 c. 42.