{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963/section-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963/section-55.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1963/37",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act 1963",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1963",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Emigration with consent of Secretary of State.",
  "text": "Section 52 of the Adoption Act 1958 (which, subject to exceptions, requires the authority of a provisional adoption order for the taking or sending abroad for adoption of infants who are British subjects) shall not apply in the case of any infant emigrating under the authority of the Secretary of State given under . . . section 17 of the Children Act 1948 or section 23 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "s. 55 repealed (E.W.) (1.4.1981) by Child Care Act 1980 (c. 5), s. 89, Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49), Sch. 8 para. 68 and Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49), Sch. 8 para. 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words repealed by Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1958 c. 5 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1948 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/37/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:00:23.676937+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."
}