Paragraph 3

Section 22 (restrictions on removal: application for adoption order pending) has effect as if—

(a)

for the words “prospective adopters” in each place they appear there were substituted “applicants or applicant (as the case may be)”;

(b)

in subsection (1)—

(i)

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

(ii)

for “an adoption order” there were substituted “a parental order”; and

(iii)

paragraph (b) were omitted;

(c)

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

(d)

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

(e)

in subsection (4) after “this section” there were inserted “(as applied with modifications by regulation 3 of and Schedule 2 to the Parental Order Regulations)”.