{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-scotland-act-1978/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-scotland-act-1978/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/28",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-scotland-act-1978",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Adoption of children abroad.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (except Pt. IV) (28.9.2009) by Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4), s. 121(2), sch. 3 (with savings by The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Provisions) (No. 1) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2233), art. 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/28/section/49",
    "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."
}