Schedule 2 PROVISIONS OF THE 1976 ACT WHICH COME INTO FORCE ON 1ST JANUARY 1988

Provision of the 1976 Act	Subject matter
Each of the sections of the 1976 Act except for sections 58A (information concerning adoption)^f1 and 74 (short title, commencement and extent) and section 73(2) and (3) (amendments and repeals) other than the extent to which they give effect to the provisions of Schedules 3 and 4 referred to in the two following paragraphs in this column.	Provisions relating to Adoption Service, adoption orders, care and protection of children awaiting adoption, status of adopted children, registration and revocation of adoption orders and convention adoptions, miscellaneous and supplemental provisions, registration of adoptions and transitional provisions and savings.
In Schedule 3, the provisions specified in the appendix to this Schedule.	Consequential amendments.
All the provisions in Schedule 4 except so far as they relate to the repeal of paragraphs 6, 26 and 63 of Schedule 3 to the Children Act 1975.	Repeals.

Annotations

f1: Section 58A was inserted by paragraph 35 of Schedule 2 to the Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41).