Part 1Adoption

Chapter 7Miscellaneous

Restrictions on arranging adoptions and placing for adoption

76Adoption societies which are not registered adoption services

1

Subsection (2) applies where—

a

an adoption society is—

i

a registered adoption society, or

ii

registered as respects Northern Ireland under Part III of the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/431), and

b

the society is not a registered adoption service.

2

Except to the extent that the society considers it necessary to do so in the interests of a person mentioned in section 3(1) of that Act or, as the case may be, Article 3 of the Northern Ireland Order, it must not act as an adoption society in Scotland.