Paragraph 2

Section 1^f1 (considerations applying to the exercise of powers) is modified as follows—

(a)

the words “or adoption agency” were omitted in each place they appear;

(b)

in subsection (1), for “the adoption of” there were substituted “the making of a parental order in relation to”;

(c)

in subsection (4), the words “or agency” were omitted in each place they appear;

(d)

in subsection (4)(c) for “an adopted person” there were substituted “the subject of a parental order”;

(e)

in subsection (4)(f) the words from “including” to the end were omitted;

(f)

subsection (5) were omitted;

(g)

in subsection (6)—

(i)

for “the adoption of” there were substituted “the making of a parental order in relation to”;

(ii)

after “whether” there were inserted “under section 54 or section 54A (as the case may be) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008”;

(iii)

after the words “this Act”, where they first appear, there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Parental Order Regulations)”; and

(iv)

for “any order under this Act” there were substituted “an order under either of those sections or under this Act as so applied”; and

(h)

in subsection (7)—

(i)

for “the adoption of” there were substituted “the making of a parental order in relation to”’

(ii)

for the words from “include” to “variation of such an order,” in paragraph (a) there were substituted “include a parental order (or the revocation of such an order),”;

(iii)

the words “adoption agency or” in paragraph (b) were omitted; and

(iv)

at the end the words “as modified” were inserted.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 1 was amended by sections 3 and 9 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6) and section 9 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16).