{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000/schedule-4/paragraph-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000/schedule-4/paragraph-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/14",
  "legislation_title": "Care Standards Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-standards-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 2 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (central authorities and accredited bodies)—\n(a) after subsection (2) there shall be inserted—\n“(2A) A voluntary adoption agency in respect of which a person is registered under Part II of the Care Standards Act 2000 is an accredited body for the purposes of the Convention if, in accordance with the conditions of the registration, the agency may provide facilities in respect of Convention adoptions and adoptions effected by Convention adoption orders.”;\nand\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 27(b) repealed (30.12.2005) by Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38), ss. 139(1)(3), 148, Sch. 3 para. 117,{Sch. 5} (with Sch. 4 paras. 6-8); S.I. 2005/2213, art. 2(o); S.I. 2005/2897, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 27 wholly in force at 1.6.2003; Sch. 4 para. 27 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 122; Sch. 4 para. 27 in force for W. at 30.4.2003 by S.I. 2003/501, art. 2(3)(a); Sch. 4 para. 27 in force for E. at 1.6.2003 by S.I. 2003/365, art. 3(6)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/28",
      "affecting_title": "Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/14/schedule/4/paragraph/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:05.049603+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."
}