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Section 41 Miscellaneous enactments.

Scotland

C1(1)

Section 39 does not apply in determining the forbidden degrees of consanguinity and affinity in respect of the law relating to marriage F1, to the eligibility of persons to register as civil partners of each other or in respect of the crime of incest, except that, on the making of an adoption order, the adopter and the child shall be deemed, for all time coming, to be within the said forbidden degrees in respect of the law relating to marriage F2, to such eligibility and to incest.

(2)

F3. . . section 39 does not apply for the purposes of any provision of—

(a)

F4the British Nationality Act 1981,

(b)

the M1Immigration Act 1971,

(c)

any instrument having effect under an enactment within paragraph (a) or (b), or

(d)

any other law for the time being in force which determines F5British citizenship, British Dependent Territories citizenship F6, the status of a British National (Overseas) or British Overseas citizenship.

3)–(5)

F7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in s. 41(1) inserted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 86(10)(a), 263(3); S.S.I. 2005/604, art. 2(b)

F2

Words in s. 41(1) substituted (5.12.2005) by Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33), ss. 86(10)(b), 263(3); S.S.I. 2005/604, art. 2(b)

F3

Words repealed by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(8), Sch. 9

F4

Words substituted by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(6), Sch. 7

F5

Words substituted by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(6), Sch. 7

F6

Words inserted by S.I. 1986/948, art. 8, Sch.

F7

S. 41(3)–(5) repealed by Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7, SIF 113:1), ss. 16, 19(3), Sch. 5

Marginal citations

M1

1971 c. 77

Modifications

C1

S. 41(1) modified (21.12.2018) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1412), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 8

Notes on Part IV

Modifications

C1

Part IV (meaning of "adopted ") applied (5.4.1993) by Child Support Act 1991 (SIF 20, c. 48), s. 26(3) (with s. 9(2)); S.I. 1992/2644, art.2

C2

Pt. IV applied (28.9.2009) by Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4), ss. 39(3), 121(2); S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)