Paragraph 68 I1

Article 15 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (adoption by one person) is amended as follows.

In paragraph (3)(a), for the words from “or, by virtue of” to “other parent” substitute “ or, by virtue of the provisions specified in paragraph (3A), there is no other parent ”.

After paragraph (3) insert—

“(3A)

The provisions referred to in paragraph (3)(a) are—

(a)

section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (disregarding subsections (5A) to (5I) of that section), or

(b)

sections 34 to 47 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (disregarding sections 39, 40 and 46 of that Act).”