Paragraph 14

(1)

Section 69 (rules of interpretation for instruments concerning property) Act is modified as follows.

(2)

Subsection (1) has effect as if the words “and to Schedule 4” were omitted.

(3)

Subsection (2) has effect as if—

(a)

after “and (2)” there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Parental Order Regulations)”;

(b)

for “adoptive parent or parents” there were substituted “person or persons who obtained the parental order”;

(c)

in paragraph (a)—

(i)

for “adopted person” there were substituted “person to whom the order applies”; and

(ii)

for “adoption” there were substituted “the parental order”; and

(d)

in paragraph (b), for “adopted” there were substituted “who are the subject of parental orders made”.

(4)

Subsection (3) has effect as if, in the note, after “subsection (2)” there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Parental Order Regulations)”.

(5)

Subsection (4) has effect as if—

(a)

after “Section 67(3)” there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Parental Order Regulations)”;

(b)

for “adopted person” in both places where those words appear there were substituted “person who is the subject of a parental order”; and

(c)

for “adoption” there were substituted “parental order is made”;

(6)

Subsection (5) has effect as if—

(a)

in paragraph (a), for “adopt” there were substituted “apply for a parental order in respect of”; and

(b)

in paragraph (b)—

(i)

after “section 67” there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Parental Order Regulations)”;

(ii)

in the case of a parental order obtained under section 54 of the 2008 Act, for the words from “as her child” to “the instrument” there were substituted “for the purposes of the instrument as her child or as the child of the person with whom she obtained the order under section 54 of the 2008 Act”; and

(iii)

in the case of a parental order obtained under section 54A of the 2008, the words following “as her child” up to and including “one of the couple” were omitted.