Adoption Act 1968 s 2

s 2

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Adoption Act 1958 shall have effect as if any reference in that Act to an adoption order within the meaning of that Act, other than a reference in the provisions mentioned in subsection (2) of this section, included a reference to an adoption order within the meaning of this Act. (2) The aforesaid provisions of the Act of 1958 are sections 1(1) to (4), 9(1) and (5), 10(1), 11(1) and (3), 12(1) and (2), 13(4), 15(5), 16(4), 17(5), 19(2), 20(6), 24(7) and 26(2) and (3). (3) The Act of 1958 as modified by subsection (1) of this section shall have effect in relation to an adoption order and a proposed adoption order subject to the following further modifications— (a) the following provisions shall be omitted, that is to say, section 9(2) to (4) and (6), section 11(2), in section 14(3) the words “and be deemed always to have included” and in section 57(1) the definitions of “adoption order”, “ Adoption Rules ” and “ infant ” ; (b) any reference to Adoption Rules or the court within the meaning of that Act or to an act of sederunt under that Act shall respectively be construed as a reference to rules and the court within the meaning of this Act and to an act of sederunt under this Act; (c) in section 7(1)(a) the reference to the Act of 1958 shall include a reference to this Act and in section 8(3) the reference to section 3 of that Act shall include a reference to section 3(1) of this Act ; (d) in section 12, for so much of subsection (1) as precedes paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words “In _ relation to an application for an adoption order made by an applicant who is not or applicants who are not ordinarily resident in Great Britain ”. (4) Sections 4 to 6 of the Act of 1958 (which relate to consents) shall not apply to an adoption order proposed to be made in respect of an infant who is not a United Kingdom national. (5) In any enactment passed before the date on which this subsection comes into force, other than an enactment contained in the Adoption Acts 1958 to 1964, any reference to an adoption order within the meaning of the Act of 1958 or to adoption or a person adopted under that Act or such an order shall respectively be construed as including a reference to, or to adoption or a person adopted under, an adoption order within the meaning of this Act. . Adoption Act 1968 Cu. 53