{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-act-1977/schedule-12/part-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-act-1977/schedule-12/part-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1977/45",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Law Act 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-law-act-1977",
  "path": "schedule/12/part/15",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "ADOPTION ACT 1958 (7&8 Eliz.2.c.5.)",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 50 (prohibition of certain payments), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) This section does not apply to—\n(a) any payment made by an adoption agency to a person who has applied or proposes to apply to a court for an adoption order or an order under section 53 of this Act (provisional adoption orders), being a payment of or towards any legal or medical expenses incurred or to be incurred by that person in connection with the application; or\n(b) any payment made by an adoption agency to another adoption agency in consideration of the placing of a child in the actual custody of any person with a view to the child’s adoption; or\n(c) any payment made by an adoption agency to a voluntary organisation for the time being approved for the purposes of this paragraph by the Secretary of State as a fee for the services of that organisation in putting that adoption agency into contact with another adoption agency with a view to the making of arrangements between the adoption agencies for the adoption of a child,\nand never has applied to payments of the kinds mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.\nIn paragraph (c) of this subsection “voluntary organisation” means a body, other than a public or local authority, the activities of which are not carried on for profit.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/45/schedule/12/part/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:24:10.366712+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."
}