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Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999

Miscellaneous and supplemental – sections 14 to 18

Section 17.   Savings for adoptions etc. under 1965 Convention

75.Savings are made in respect of the 1965 Convention which will remain in force in the UK until it is repudiated.   So far as the United Kingdom is concerned, there are known to be two or three adoption orders made under the 1965 Convention affecting British citizens.   Section 17 therefore provides that the provisions of the 1976 Act and 1978 Act relating to the 1965 Convention which are amended by clauses 3 to 6 and 8 and Schedule 2 of this Act are to have effect without these amendments in any adoption involving the 1965 Convention.

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