{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2022/18",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-northern-ireland-2022",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Reports where child placed by agency",
  "text": "(1) Where an application for an adoption order relates to a child placed for adoption by an adoption agency, the agency must—\n(a) submit to the court a report on the suitability of the applicants and on any other matters relevant to the operation of section 1; and\n(b) assist the court in any manner the court directs.\n(2) Arrangements may be made by an adoption agency which has placed a child for its functions in relation to that child with respect to—\n(a) the report on the suitability of the applicants for adoption; and\n(b) any other matters relevant to the operation of section 1,\nto be discharged by another adoption agency.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 160(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2022/18/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:21.400523+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."
}