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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010/schedule-12/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "asp/2010/8",
  "legislation_title": "Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-services-reform-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An “adoption service” is any service which is—\n(a) provided by a local authority under subsection (1) of section 1 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4); or\n(b) provided by a person other than a local authority and which consists of, or includes, services mentioned in subsection (4) of that section (the reference in subsection (5) of that section to a local authority being taken, for the purposes of this paragraph, to be a reference to a person other than a local authority), (whether the person functions generally or in relation to a service provided, under that section).\n(2) For the purpose of sub-paragraph (1)(b)—\n(a) the making by a person of arrangements for the adoption of a child by a relevant person; or\n(b) the placing by a person of a child for adoption with a relevant person,\nis not an adoption service.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2), “relevant person” means—\n(a) a parent of the child;\n(b) any other relative of the child; or\n(c) where a parent of the child is a member of a relevant couple, the other member of the couple.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (3)—\n“relative” has the meaning given by section 119(1) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 4);\n“relevant couple” is to be construed in accordance with section 29(3) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 8 in force at 1.10.2010 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2010/321, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 8 in force at 1.4.2011 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2011/122, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for Sch. 12 para. 6",
      "affecting": "asp/2024/5",
      "affecting_title": "Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:27.543776+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."
}