# Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, Section 76: Adoption societies which are not registered adoption services

Extent: S

(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 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/4/section/76 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-scotland-act-2007/section-76
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