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Article 5 Transitional provisions

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Notwithstanding their revocation, the Adoption Rules 1984 and the Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) Rules 1984 shall continue to apply to an application under—

(a)

section 12 (adoption order);

(b)

section 18 (freeing for adoption);

(c)

section 20 (revocation of a section 18 order);

(d)

section 21 (variation of a section 18 order so as to substitute one adoption agency for another);

(e)

section 27(1) or (2) (restriction on removal of child where adoption pending or application made under section 18);

(f)

section 29 (return of child taken away in breach of section 27);

(g)

section 53 (annulment etc. of overseas adoptions); and

(h)

section 55 (adoption of children abroad).