Application for an order to annul a Convention adoption or Convention adoption order or for an overseas adoption or determination under section 91 to cease to be valid. Section 89 Adoption and Children Act 2002
| Published date | 21 March 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Adoption forms |
Application for an order to annul a Convention
adoption or Convention adoption order or for an
overseas adoption or determination under
section 91 to cease to be valid (Form A63)
Notes on completing the form
Important
If you are attaching any order of the High Court or the family court to your application, it
must be a sealed copy of the order (that is, a copy that has been stamped with the seal
of the court). An order issued by any other authority must be properly authenticated by
that authority. If you are in any doubt about what is needed, please contact the court for
assistance.
Take or send the completed application form, and three copies, to the High Court, together
with the court fee and any documents you are attaching in support of your application.
If you are not sure about the court fee payable for your application, or you think you may be
exempt from paying all or part of the fee, you should contact the court for information.
You may need to pay a fee with your application. You should read leaet EX50 Civil and
family court fees to nd out what fee, if any, you need to pay. This leaet is available from
your local court or online at hmctsformnder.justice.gov.uk
Notes on the application form
An application may be made to the High Court under section 89 of the Adoption and
Children Act 2002 for:
• An order to annul a Convention adoption or Convention adoption order on the ground
that the adoption is contrary to public policy;
• An order that an overseas adoption or a determination under section 91 cease to be
valid on the ground that the adoption or determination is contrary to public policy or that
the authority which purported to authorise the adoption or make the determination was
not competent to entertain the case; or
• A decision about the extent, if any, to which a determination under section 91 has been
affected by a subsequent determination under that section.
An ‘overseas adoption’ is one occurring in a place, under the law of that place, listed in
The Adoption (Recognition or Overseas Adoptions) Order 2013.
If you do not want your private address and telephone number to be disclosed to any other
party, do not enter those details on this application form. Instead you should enter the
details on Form A65, which you must le at the court with your application. The information
will not then be disclosed to any other person, except by order of the court.
Enter your relationship to the child, for example, adopter, parent. If you are the child enter
‘subject child’. If you do not have a relationship to the child enter ‘none’.
Please give the name of the child as it appears on the Convention adoption, Convention
adoption order or other overseas adoption order or determination under section 91.
You must attach a copy of the order (or determination) to your application.
If there are any other earlier, or current, court proceedings relating to the child, give the
name of the court, the nature of the proceedings and the date and effect of any order made.
You should attach a copy of any court order to the application. You do not need to enter
here the details of the Convention adoption, Convention adoption order or other overseas
adoption order or determination under section 91 you are asking the court to annul or
declare invalid. Instead, you should enter those details in Part 4 ‘About this application’.
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