{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/36",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 19 (progress reports)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) for the words “(”the former parent”)” substitute “ (in this section and in section 20 referred to as the “relevant parent”) ”; and\n(ii) for the words “did not do so” substitute—\n“either—\n(a) did not do so; or\n(b) having done so, subsequently by written notice under this subsection to the adoption agency to which the parental responsibilities and parental rights have been transferred, has withdrawn such declaration.”;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) for the words “in which the parental rights and duties were vested” substitute “ to which the parental responsibilities and parental rights were transferred ”; and\n(ii) for the word “former”, in both places where it occurs, substitute “ relevant ”;\n(c) in subsection (3)—\n(i) for the word “former”, wherever it occurs, substitute “ relevant ”; and\n(ii) for the words “have his home with a person with whom he has been placed for adoption” substitute “ be placed with a person with a view to his being adopted by that person ”; and\n(d) in subsection (4)—\n(i) for the words “the former” substitute “ the relevant ”;\n(ii) after paragraph (b) add— “ but a declaration under this subsection may be withdrawn in the same way as may a declaration under subsection (6) of section 18, in which event the agency shall no longer be so released ”; and\n(iii) for the words “that former” substitute “ that relevant ”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 12 wholly in force at 1.4.1997; Sch. 2 para. 12 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 105(1); Sch. 2 para. 12(b)(i) in force at 1.11.1996 by S.I. 1996/2203, art. 3(3), Sch. (with arts. 4-7) (as amended (19.1.1997) by S.I. 1997/137, art. 2); Sch. 2 para. 12 in force at 1.4.1997 insofar as not already in force by S.I. 1996/3201, art. 3(7) (with arts. 4-6) (as amended (7.3.1997) by S.I. 1997/744, arts. 2, 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/36/schedule/2/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:50.972491+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."
}