Paragraph 23 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008I1

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 33(2) (meaning of mother) and 38(4) (further provision relating to sections 35 and 36) of the 2008 Act references to adoption are to be read as including a reference to the effect of a parental order under section 54 or 54A of that Act.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 4 para. 23 in force at 21.12.2018, see reg. 1(1)