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Section 7 Adoption Service to include intercountry adoptions etc.

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In Article 3 of the 1987 Order (Adoption Service), after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(2A)

In this Part references to adoption are to the adoption of children, wherever they may be habitually resident, effected under the law of any country or territory, whether within or outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.” .