Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

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Jurisdiction	Northern Ireland
Citation	2022 NI c 18
Year	2022

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Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
PART 1: Adoption

1: Considerations applying to the exercise of powers

The Adoption Service

2: Basic definitions
3: Adoption authority
4: The Adoption Service
5: Assessments etc. for adoption support services
6: Adoption support services: duty to provide information
7: Arrangements on cancellation of registration
8: Inactive or defunct adoption societies, etc.

Regulations

9: General power to regulate adoption agencies
10: Management, etc., of agencies
11: Fees
12: Independent review of qualifying determinations of adoption agencies

Supplemental

13: Information concerning adoption
14: Inspection of premises, etc.

Placement of children by adoption agency for adoption

15: Placement for adoption by agencies
16: Placing children with parental consent
17: Advance consent to adoption
18: Placement orders
19: Applications for placement orders
20: Varying placement orders
21: Revoking placement orders
22: Parental responsibility
23: Contact
24: Contact: supplementary
25: Further consequences of placement
26: Further consequences of placement orders

Removal of children who are or may be placed by adoption agencies

27: General prohibitions on removal
28: Recovery by parent etc. where child not placed or is a baby
29: Recovery by parent etc. where child placed and consent withdrawn
30: Recovery by parent etc. where child placed and placement order refused
31: Placement orders: prohibition on removal
32: Return of child in other cases

Removal of children in non-agency cases

33: Restrictions on removal
34: Applications for adoption: If section 33(1)(a) applies, the following persons may remove the child—
35: Authority foster parents
36: Partners of parents
37: Other non-agency cases

Breach of restrictions on removal

38: Recovery orders

Preliminaries to adoption

39: Child to live with adopters before application
40: Reports where child placed by agency
41: Notice of intention to adopt
42: Suitability of adopters

The making of adoption orders

43: Adoption orders
44: Conditions for making adoption orders
45: Restrictions on making adoption orders
46: Applications for adoption
47: Adoption by couple
48: Adoption by one person

Post-adoption contact

49: Post-adoption contact
50: Orders under section 49: supplementary

Placement and adoption: general

51: Parental etc. consent
52: Modification of Children Order in relation to adoption
53: Disclosing information to prospective adopters
54: Revocation of adoptions on legitimation

Disclosure of information about a person’s adoption

55: Information to be kept about a person’s adoption
56: Restrictions on disclosure of protected etc. information
57: Disclosure of other information
58: Offence
59: Disclosing information to adopted adult
60: Disclosing protected information about adults
61: Disclosing protected information about children
62: Counselling
63: Other provision to be made by regulations
64: Sections 55 to 64: interpretation

65: Meaning of adoption in Chapter 4

66: Status conferred by adoption

67: Adoptive relatives

68: Rules of interpretation for instruments concerning property

69: Dispositions depending on date of birth

70: Property devolving with peerages etc.

71: Protection of trustees and personal representatives

72: Meaning of disposition

73: Miscellaneous

74: Pensions
75: Insurance

Adopted Children Register, etc.

76: Adopted Children Register
77: Searches and copies
78: Connections between the register and birth records

Adoption Contact Register

79: Adoption Contact Register
80: Adoption Contact Register: supplementary
81: Interpretation

Bringing children into and out of the United Kingdom

82: Restriction on bringing children in
83: Giving parental responsibility prior to adoption abroad
84: Restriction on taking children out
85: Power to modify sections 82 and 84

Adoptions from abroad: special restrictions

86: Declaration of special restrictions on adoptions from abroad
87: Review
88: The special restrictions
89: Imposition of extra conditions in certain cases

Overseas adoptions

90: Overseas adoptions

Miscellaneous

91: Modification of section 66 for Hague Convention adoptions
92: Annulment etc. of overseas or Hague Convention adoptions
93: Section 92: supplementary
94: Overseas determinations and orders
95: Power to charge

Restrictions

96: Restriction on arranging adoptions etc.
97: Offence of breaching restrictions under section 96
98: Restriction on reports
99: Prohibition of certain payments
100: Excepted payments
101: Sections 96 to 100: interpretation

Information

102: Pre-commencement adoptions: information

Proceedings

103: Proceedings for offences
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