Part 1Adoption
Chapter 4Adoption support plans
Adoption support plans
46Duration
1
An adoption support plan ceases to have effect on the occurrence of whichever of the events in subsection (2) first occurs.
2
Those events are—
a
the preparation of a further adoption support plan in respect of the member or, as the case may be, members of the relevant family in relation to whom the adoption support plan was prepared,
b
the date on which an appropriate child reaches the age of 18.
3
In this section, “appropriate child” means a child—
a
who has been placed for adoption, or
b
who has been adopted,
and who is a member of the relevant family in relation to which, or to any members of which, the adoption support plan was prepared.