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Enforced by: Care Inspectorate
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

What it requires

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Part 1

Adoption

1 of 86 sections shown

s.055 Connections between the register and birth records Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Registrar General must maintain traceable link between birth records and Adopted Children RegisterCrown / Minister / Government department

85 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.001 Duty of local authority to provide adoption service

s.002 Carrying out of duties imposed by section 1

s.003 Adoption service: regulations

s.004 Local authority plans

s.005 Guidance

s.006 Assistance in carrying out functions under section 1

s.007 Meaning of “adoption service” in Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001

s.008 Adoption agencies: regulations about carrying out of functions

s.009 Assessment of needs for adoption support services

s.010 Provision of services

s.011 Urgent provision

s.012 Power to provide payment to person entitled to adoption support service

s.013 Regulations

s.013 Scotland's Adoption Register

s.013 Registration organisation

s.013 Supply of information for the Register

s.013 Disclosure of information

s.013 Fees and other payments

s.013 Use of an organisation as agency for payments

s.013 Supplementary

s.014 Considerations applying to the exercise of powers

s.015 Child to live with adopters before adoption order made

s.016 Home visits

s.017 Reports where child placed by agency

s.018 Notification to local authority of adoption application

s.019 Notice under section 18: local authority's duties

s.020 Restrictions on removal: child placed for adoption with consent

s.021 Restrictions on removal: notice of intention to adopt given

s.022 Restrictions on removal: application for adoption order pending

s.023 Restrictions on removal of child looked after by local authority

s.024 Return of child removed in breach of certain provisions

s.025 Return of child placed for adoption by adoption agency

s.026 Looked after children: adoption not proceeding

s.027 Contravention of sections 30 to 36 of 2002 Act

s.028 Adoption orders

s.029 Adoption by certain couples

s.030 Adoption by one person

s.031 Parental

s.032 Consent of child aged 12 or over

s.033 Restrictions on making orders

s.034 Contravention of section 72 no bar to making order

s.035 Effect of order on existing rights etc.

s.036 Revocation of compulsory supervision order on making of adoption order

s.037 Information to be kept about adoptions

s.038 Disclosure of information kept under relevant enactment

s.039 Meaning of “adoption” in Chapter 3

s.040 Status conferred by adoption

s.041 Miscellaneous enactments

s.042 Pensions

s.043 Insurance

s.044 Succession and inter vivos deeds

s.045 Adoption support plans

s.046 Duration

s.047 Family member's right to require review of plan

s.048 Other cases where authority under duty to review plan

s.049 Reassessment of needs for adoption support services

s.050 Implementation of plans: directions

s.051 Guidance

s.052 Regulations about reviews of adoption support plans

s.053 Adopted Children Register and index

s.054 Searches and extracts

s.056 Admissibility of extracts as evidence

s.057 Interpretation of Chapter 5

s.058 Restriction on bringing children into the United Kingdom

s.059 Preliminary order where child to be adopted abroad

s.060 Restriction on removal of children for adoption outwith Great Britain

s.061 Regulations under section 58: offences

s.062 Declaration of special restrictions on adoptions from abroad

s.063 Review

s.064 The special restrictions

s.065 Imposition of extra conditions in certain cases

s.066 Power to charge

s.067 Meaning of “overseas adoption”

s.068 Annulment and recognition

s.069 Section 68: supplementary provision

s.070 Effect of determinations and orders made outwith Scotland

s.071 Adoption allowances schemes

s.072 Prohibition of certain payments

s.073 Excepted payments

s.074 Disclosure of medical information about parents

s.075 Restriction on arranging adoptions and placing children

s.076 Adoption societies which are not registered adoption services

s.077 Effect of certain orders made in England and Wales

s.078 Effect of placing for adoption etc. under 2002 Act

s.079 Further consequences of placement and placement orders

Part 2

Permanence orders

5 of 25 sections shown

s.100 Revocation: order under section 11 of 1995 Act

amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)

s.101 Local authority to give notice of certain matters

amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)

s.102 Effect of subsequent adoption order on permanence order

amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)

s.103 Restriction on making of orders under section 11 of 1995 Act

amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)

s.104 Permanence orders: rules of procedure

amended 2 times (opens in a new tab)

20 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.080 Permanence orders

s.081 Permanence orders: mandatory provision

s.082 Permanence orders: ancillary provisions

s.083 Order granting authority for adoption: conditions

s.084 Conditions and considerations applicable to making of order

s.085 Child in respect of whom order may be made

s.086 Representations

s.087 Effect of order on existing parental right

s.088 Effect of order on existing orders

s.089 Revocation of compulsory supervision order on making of permanence order

s.090 Precedence of certain other orders

s.091 Exercise of parental right under order

s.092 Variation of ancillary provisions in order

s.093 Amendment of order to grant authority for child to be adopted

s.094 Proceedings

s.095 Duty of children's hearing to prepare report for court

s.096 Application: effect on compulsory supervision order

s.097 Interim orders and revocation of compulsory supervision order

s.098 Revocation

s.099 Duty of local authority to apply for variation or revocation

Part 3

Miscellaneous

9 of 9 sections shown

s.105 Notification of proposed application for order

amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)

s.106 Child subject to compulsory supervision order: duty to refer to Principal Reporter

amended 7 times (opens in a new tab)

s.107 Making of adoption order no longer to be bar to making of contact order

amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)

s.108 Rules: appointment of curators ad litem and reporting officers

amended 4 times (opens in a new tab)

s.109 Proceedings to be in private

amended 4 times (opens in a new tab)

s.110 Allowances for care of certain children: regulations

amended 7 times (opens in a new tab)

s.111 Evidence of consent

amended 2 times (opens in a new tab)

s.112 Service of notices etc.

amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)

s.113 Admissibility of certain documents as evidence

amended 2 times (opens in a new tab)

Part 4

General

6 of 8 sections shown

s.114 Rules of procedure

amended 2 times (opens in a new tab)

s.115 Offences by bodies corporate and partnerships

amended 1 time (opens in a new tab)

s.117 Orders and regulations

amended 5 times (opens in a new tab)

s.118 Meaning of “appropriate court”

amended 2 times (opens in a new tab)

s.119 Interpretation

amended 8 times (opens in a new tab)

s.120 Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

amended 3 times (opens in a new tab)

2 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.116 Ancillary provision

s.121 Short title and commencement

Schedules

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22 other schedules

s.sch001 (1) Every adoption order must contain a direction to the...

s.sch001 (1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies where— (a) on an application to...

s.sch001 Where an adoption order is made in respect of a...

s.sch001 (1) Where an adoption order is made, the clerk of...

s.sch001 (1) Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) apply where the Registrar General...

s.sch001 (1) If the Registrar General is satisfied, on an application...

s.sch001 (1) The court by which an adoption order has been...

s.sch001 Without prejudice to any other provision of this Act, where—...

s.sch002 (1) The Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 is amended as follows....

s.sch002 In section 1 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999...

s.sch002 (1) The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 is amended...

s.sch002 In paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section 123 of...

s.sch002 In section 745 of the Income Tax (Trading and Other...

s.sch002 In subsection (2) of section 7 of the Joint Inspection...

s.sch002 (1) The Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 is amended as...

s.sch002 In subsection (5)(a) of section 2 of the Foster Children...

s.sch002 In paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Child Abduction...

s.sch002 In subsection (1)(b) of section 1 of the Family Law...

s.sch002 In subsection (10) of section 30 of the Human Fertilisation...

s.sch002 In subsection (3) of section 26 of the Child Support...

s.sch002 In sub-paragraph (iii) of section 2(1)(d) of the Civil Evidence...

s.sch002 (1) The Children (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows....

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Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007

Does it bind you?

What it requires

Adoption

Permanence orders

Miscellaneous

General

Schedules