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Article 2 Overseas adoptions

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(1)

An adoption of a childf1 is specified as an overseas adoption if it is an adoption effected under the law of a country or territory listed in the Schedule after the coming into force of this Order and is not a Convention adoptionf2.

(2)

In this Article “law” does not include customary or common law.

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Footnotes

f1

See section 144(1) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (“the Act”) for the definition of “child”.

f2

See section 144(1) of the Act for the definition of “the Convention”.