Regulation 3 Application

The amendments to the principal Regulations provided for in these Regulations have effect only in relation to an employee with whom a child is expected to be placed for adoption, where the placement is expected to occur on or after 1st April 2007. For the purposes of this paragraph, the date on which the child is actually placed for adoption is immaterial.

The amendments to the principal Regulations applied to adoption from overseas by virtue of and as modified by the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Adoption from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003^f1 have effect only where the adopter’s child enters Northern Ireland on or after 1st April 2007.

For the purposes of paragraph (2)—

• “adopter”, in relation to a child, means a person by whom the child has been or is to be adopted or, in a case where the child has been or is to be adopted by two people jointly, whichever of them has elected to take adoption leave in respect of the child;

• “adoption from overseas” means the adoption of the child who enters Northern Ireland from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of adoption which does not involve the placement of the child for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom;

• “enters Northern Ireland” means enters Northern Ireland from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of adoption.