Section 76 Adoption societies which are not registered adoption servicesI1

Scotland

(1)

Subsection (2) applies where—

(a)

an adoption society is—

(i)

a registered adoption society, or

(ii)

registered as respects Northern Ireland under Part III of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/431), and

(b)

the society is not a registered adoption service.

(2)

Except to the extent that the society considers it necessary to do so in the interests of a person mentioned in section 3(1) of F1the 2002 Act or, as the case may be, Article 3 of the Northern Ireland Order, it must not act as an adoption society in Scotland.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 76(2) substituted (27.1.2010) by Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Modification of Enactments) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/21), art. 1, Sch. para. 8(4)

Commencement

I1: S. 76 in force at 28.9.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)