{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-8/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-8/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/41",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A child is not a privately fostered child while he is placed in the care of a person who proposes to adopt him under arrangements made by an adoption agency within the meaning of—\n(a) section 2 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n(b) section 119 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007; or\n(c) Article 3 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987\nor while he is a child in respect of whom a local authority have functions by virtue of regulations under section 83(6)(b) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (which relates to children brought into the United Kingdom for adoption), or corresponding functions by virtue of regulations under section 1 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (regulations to give effect to Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5(a)-(c) and preceding words substituted (30.12.2005) for Sch. 8 para. 5(a)(b) by 2002 c. 38, ss. 139, 148, Sch. 3 para. 73 (with Sch. 4 paras. 6-8); S.I. 2005/2213, art. 2(o)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5(b) substituted (15.7.2011) by The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1740), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 5 inserted (2.8.2007) by Children and Adoption Act 2006 (c. 20), ss. 14(3), 17; S.I. 2007/2287, art. 2(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5 modified (6.4.2010) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/985), reg. 5, Sch. 4 (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5 modified (21.12.2018) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1412), reg. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 108(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41/schedule/8/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T07:28:21.051680+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."
}