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The Special Restrictions on Adoptions from Nigeria (Scotland) Order 2021

S.S.I. 2021/30 · Made 20 January 2021

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Children And Young Persons

Made 20th January 2021

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 22nd January 2021

Coming into force 12th March 2021

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 62(3) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

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Footnotes

f1

2007 asp 4.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Declaration of special restrictions
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Special Restrictions on Adoptions from Nigeria (Scotland) Order 2021 and comes into force on 12 March 2021.

2Declaration of special restrictions

Special restrictionsf1 apply in relation to the bringing of children into the United Kingdom from Nigeria in the cases mentioned in section 62(2) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.

Signature

MAREE TODD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

20th January 2021

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order applies the special restrictions which are set out in section 64(1) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (“the Act”) in relation to the adoption of children from Nigeria. As a result, the Scottish Ministers will not be permitted to take any steps to further the bringing of children into the United Kingdom from Nigeria for the purposes of adoption, unless they are satisfied that they should do so under section 64(2) of the Act.