{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007/section-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007/section-76.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2007/4",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Adoption societies which are not registered adoption services",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) an adoption society is—\n(i) a registered adoption society, or\n(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\n(b) the society is not a registered adoption service.\n(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 the 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.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/4/section/76",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:02.274423+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."
}