Article 2 Variation of Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973

there shall be inserted at the beginning of paragraph (2) of Article 3 the words “Subject to paragraphs (2A) and (2B) of this Article,”;

after paragraph (2) of Article 3 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“(2A)

This Article applies, as respects any adoption effected on or after 10th July 1995, in relation to any place which, at the time the adoption is effected, forms part of the People’s Republic of China.

(2B)

Paragraph (2A) above extends only to Scotland.”.