{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-recognition-of-overseas-adoptions-order-2013/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1801",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption (Recognition of Overseas Adoptions) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-recognition-of-overseas-adoptions-order-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Overseas adoptions",
  "text": "(1) An adoption of a child 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 adoption.\n(2) In this Article “law” does not include customary or common law.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 144(1) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (“the Act”) for the definition of “child”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 144(1) of the Act for the definition of “the Convention”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1801/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:22.752189+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."
}