{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/18",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-intercountry-aspects-act-1999",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Devolution.",
  "text": "(1) Any function of the Secretary of State under section 1 or 18(3)... is exercisable only after consultation with the National Assembly for Wales.\n(2) For the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998, any provision of this Act which extends to Scotland is to be taken to be a pre-commencement enactment within the meaning of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words ins. 16(1) repealed (30.12.2005) by Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38), s. 148(1), Sch. 3 para. 101, Sch. 5 (with Sch. 4 paras. 2, 6-8); S.I. 2005/2213, art. 2(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1998 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 partly in force; s. 16 not in force at Royal assent see s. 18(3); s. 16(2) in force at 16.10.2000 by S.I. 2000/2821, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 16(1) in force at 23.1.2003 for E.W. by S.I. 2003/189, art. 2(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/18/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:55.566406+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."
}