{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-171ZK",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-171ZK.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992",
  "path": "section/171ZK",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "171ZK",
  "heading": "Power to apply Part 12ZA ...",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for this Part to have effect in relation to cases which involve adoption, but not the placement of a child for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom, with such modifications as the regulations may prescribe.\n(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for this Part to have effect in relation to cases which involve a person who has applied, or intends to apply, with another person for a parental order under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and a child who is, or will be, the subject of the order, with such modifications as the regulations may prescribe.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 12ZA inserted (8.12.2002) by Employment Act 2002 (c. 22), ss. 2, 55(2); S.I. 2002/2866, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 171ZK(1) renumbered (30.6.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 122(5)(b), 139(6); S.I. 2014/1640, art. 3(1)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 171ZK(2) inserted (30.6.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 122(5)(c), 139(6); S.I. 2014/1640, art. 3(1)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 171ZK title repealed (30.6.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 122(5)(a), 139(6); S.I. 2014/1640, art. 3(1)(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/section/171ZK",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:29.915383+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."
}