{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/16",
  "legislation_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "APPLICATION, WITH MODIFICATIONS, OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE 1987 ORDER",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nProvisions of the 1987 Order\nModifications (if any)\nArticle 12 (adoption orders)\nAs if at the beginning of paragraphs (5) and (7) there were inserted the words “Subject to paragraph (8),”.\nAs if there were inserted at the end “(8) An adoption order may not be made in relation to a person who has attained the age of 19 years”.\nArticle 16 (parental agreement)\nAs if for paragraph (1) there were substituted “A convention adoption order shall not be made unless an agreement under Article 17(c) of the Convention has been made in respect of the child” and paragraphs (2) to (5) were omitted.\nArticle 22 (notification to Board or HSS trust of adoption application, where child not placed by adoption agency)\nAs if the words in paragraph (1) “not placed with the applicant by an adoption agency” there were substituted “entrusted to the applicants by a competent authority within the meaning of Article 17 of the Convention”.\nArticle 28 (restrictions on removal where adoption agreed)\nAs if for paragraph (1) there were substituted “Where an application for a Convention adoption order is pending the parent or guardian is not entitled to remove the child from the home of the applicant except with the leave of the court.”, paragraphs (2) and (2A) were omitted, and in paragraph (3) “or (2)” were omitted.\nArticle 31 (return of children placed for adoption by adoption agencies)\nAs if Article 31 were omitted.\nArticle 32 (application of Article 31 where child not placed for adoption)\nAs if Article 32 were omitted.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 in operation at 1.6.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/16",
      "affecting_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/16/schedule/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:14.848133+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}