Paragraph 7 Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978

(1)

In section 39 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978^f1 (status conferred by adoption)—

(a)

a reference to an adoption order in each place it occurs is to be read as including a reference to a parental order made under section 54 or section 54A of the 2008 Act; and

(b)

a reference to an adopter is to be read as including a reference to any of the persons, or the person, who obtained a parental order in respect of the child.

(2)

In subsection (2) the reference to a child who has been adopted by one of his natural parents is to be read as including a reference to a child who is the subject of a parental order granted to one of that child’s natural parents.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1978 c. 28. Section 39 was amended by section 97 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36) and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 2). Other amendments have been made, but those amendments are not relevant to this instrument