{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-revocations-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-revocations-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2804",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts Act 2003 (Revocations, Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-2003-revocations-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2005",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "Notwithstanding their revocation, the Adoption Rules 1984 and the Magistrates' Courts (Adoption) Rules 1984 shall continue to apply to an application under—\n(a) section 12 (adoption order);\n(b) section 18 (freeing for adoption);\n(c) section 20 (revocation of a section 18 order);\n(d) section 21 (variation of a section 18 order so as to substitute one adoption agency for another);\n(e) section 27(1) or (2) (restriction on removal of child where adoption pending or application made under section 18);\n(f) section 29 (return of child taken away in breach of section 27);\n(g) section 53 (annulment etc. of overseas adoptions); and\n(h) section 55 (adoption of children abroad).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2804/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:57.253885+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."
}