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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9AMENDMENTS

The Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (NI 22)

139.—(1) In Article 2(3)—

(a)for “transferring the actual custody of a child to” substitute “placing a child with”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (b) for “transfer of the child to the actual custody of” substitute “placing of the child with”.

(2) After paragraph (3) add the following paragraphs—

(4) In this Order, in determining with what person, or where, a child has his home, any absence of the child at a hospital or at a school providing accommodation for him and any other temporary absence shall be disregarded.

(5) In this Order references to a child who is in the care of or looked after by a Board or HSS trust have the same meaning as in the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995..