{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-107",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-107.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/38",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002",
  "path": "section/107",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "107",
  "heading": "Use of adoption records from other parts of the British Islands",
  "text": "Any document which is receivable as evidence of any matter—\n(a) in Scotland under section 56(1) or (2) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4) (admissibility of extracts as evidence),\n(b) in Northern Ireland under Article 63(1) of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, or\n(c) in the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands under an enactment corresponding to section 77(3) of this Act,\nis also receivable as evidence of that matter in England and Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 107(a) substituted (15.7.2011) by The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1740), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 6(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 107 applied (with modifications) (6.4.2010) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/985), regs. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 107 in force at 30.12.2005 by S.I. 2005/2213, art. 2(j) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2005/2897, arts. 3-16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/38/section/107",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:55.944329+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."
}