Paragraph 14 Family Law Act 1986I1

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 4 para. 5(a) words substituted by Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Sch. 3 para. 84(2)
Sch. 4 para. 5(b) words substituted by Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Sch. 3 para. 84(3)(a)
Sch. 4 para. 5(b) words substituted by Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Sch. 3 para. 84(3)(b)

In section 1(1)(b)(x) of the Family Law Act 1986^f1 (child custody) the reference to an adoption order (as defined in section 28(1) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007) is to be read as including a reference to a parental order under section 54 or section 54A of the 2008 Act.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 4 para. 14 in force at 21.12.2018, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: 1986 c. 55. So far as England and Wales are concerned, section 1 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2011/1740.