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.