Paragraph 16 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990I1

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 Sections 27(2) (meaning of mother) and 28(5)(c) (meaning of father) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990^f1 any reference to adoption is to be read as including a reference to the effect of a parental order under section 54 or section 54A of the 2008 Act.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 4 para. 16 in force at 21.12.2018, see reg. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: 1990 c. 37. Section 27 was amended by paragraph 77 to Schedule 3 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002. Section 28(5)(c) was amended by paragraph 78 of Schedule 3 to that Act.