{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-scotland-act-1978/section-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-scotland-act-1978/section-41.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/28",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous enactments.",
  "text": "(1) Section 39 does not apply in determining the forbidden degrees of consanguinity and affinity in respect of the law relating to marriage , 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 , to such eligibility and to incest.\n(2) . . . section 39 does not apply for the purposes of any provision of—\n(a) the British Nationality Act 1981,\n(b) the Immigration Act 1971,\n(c) any instrument having effect under an enactment within paragraph (a) or (b), or\n(d) any other law for the time being in force which determines British citizenship, British Dependent Territories citizenship , the status of a British National (Overseas) or British Overseas citizenship.\n3)–(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(8), Sch. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(6), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by British Nationality Act 1981 (c. 61, SIF 87), s. 52(6), Sch. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words inserted by S.I. 1986/948, art. 8, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 41(3)–(5) repealed by Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7, SIF 113:1), ss. 16, 19(3), Sch. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 77"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/28/section/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:22:56.144977+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."
}