Article 5 Transitional Provisions

The Family Proceedings Fees Order 2004 is to continue to have effect as if the amendments in this Order had not been made for the purposes of an application under the following sections of the Adoption Act 1976^f1—

(a)

section 20 (revocation of a section 18 order);

(b)

section 21 (variation of a section 18 order so as to substitute one adoption agency for another);

(c)

section 27(1) or (2) (restriction on removal of child where adoption pending or application made under section 18); and

(d)

section 29 (return of child taken away in breach of section 27).

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Footnotes

f1: 1976 c. 36, section 20 was amended by section 88 of, and Schedule 10, paragraph 8(1) and (2) to, the Children Act 1989 (c. 41) and by section 139(2) of, and paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 4 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38). Sections 21, 27 and 29(1) and (2) were substituted by section 88 of, and Schedule 10, paragraphs 9, 12 and 15 to, the Children Act 1989. The Adoption Act 1976 is repealed, with savings, by section 139(3) of, and Schedule 5 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38).