{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-hague-convention-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-hague-convention-act-northern-ireland-1969/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1969/22",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption (Hague Convention) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-hague-convention-act-northern-ireland-1969",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application of Order of 1987 to convention adoption orders.",
  "text": "The Order of 1987 shall have effect in relation to an adoption order to be made as a convention adoption order subject to the following modifications—\n(a) in Article 14(4) (adoption by couples) , at the end there shall be added “ or the application is for a convention adoption order and section 1 of the Adoption (Hague Convention) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 is complied with ”;\n(b) in Article 15(2) (adoption by one person), at the end there shall be added “ or the application is for a convention adoption order and section 1 of the Adoption (Hague Convention) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 is complied with ”;\n(c) in Article 16(2) (parental agreement) at the end there shall be inserted —\n“(2A) Paragraph (1) does not apply in any case where the child is not a United Kingdom national and the application for the adoption order is for a convention adoption order.”",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(a) substituted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 29(3) (with regs. 6-9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1969/22/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:29:53.044946+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."
}