Legalize / United Kingdom / Scotland / Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

The Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7) (Scotland) Order 2002

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2002-12-18

State In force

Jurisdiction Scotland

Department Queen's Printer for Scotland

Source legislation.gov.uk

PDF Download

articles Not indexed

Reform history JSON API

Made: 18th December 2002

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18(3) of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999[^f00001], hereby make the following Order:

Citation and extent

1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7) (Scotland) Order 2002.

(2) This Order extends to Scotland only.

Appointed day

2

14th January 2003 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999:–

(a) section 1 (regulations giving effect to Convention); and

(b) section 12 (registration of certain intercountry adoptions) insofar as it amends the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978[^f00002].

Signed

CATHY JAMIESON — 18th December 2002

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which extends to Scotland only, brings into force on 14th January 2003 the following provisions of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999:–

Section 1 (which enables the Scottish Ministers to make regulations which give effect to the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoptions which was concluded at the Hague on 29th May 1993); and

Section 12 (which amends the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1999 c. 18. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c46) and section 16 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999.

[^f00002]: 1978 c. 28.

Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.

This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence. legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.