UNITED KINGDOM STATUTORY INSTRUMENT
2013 No. 1801
Children And Young Persons, England And Wales
The Adoption (Recognition of Overseas Adoptions) Order 2013
Made 18th July 2013
Laid before Parliament 22th July 2013
Coming into force 3rd January 2014
The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 87(1) and (5), 140(7) and (8) and 142(5) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.
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Citation and commencementCitation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Adoption (Recognition of Overseas Adoptions) Order 2013 and comes into force on 3rd January 2014.
Overseas adoptions
2.—(1) An adoption of a childis specified as an overseas adoption if it is an adoption effected under the law of a country or territory listed in the Schedule after the coming into force of this Order and is not a Convention adoption.
(2) In this Article “law” does not include customary or common law.
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Evidence of an overseas adoptionEvidence of an overseas adoption
3.—(1) The following documents may be provided as evidence that an overseas adoption has been effected—
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(a) a certified copy of an entry made, in accordance with the law of the country or territory concerned, in a public register relating to the recording of adoptions and showing that the adoption has been effected; or
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(b) a certificate that the adoption has been effected, signed or purporting to be signed by a person authorised by the law of the country or territory concerned to sign such a certificate, or a certified copy of such a certificate.
(2) Where a document produced by virtue of paragraph (1) is not in English, the Registrar General may require the production of an English translation of the document before being satisfied of the matters specified in paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Adoption and Children Act 2002.
(3) Nothing in this Article may be construed as precluding proof, in accordance with the Evidence (Foreign, Dominion and Colonial Documents) Act 1933, or the Oaths and Evidence (Overseas Authorities and Countries) Act 1963, or otherwise, that an overseas adoption has been effected.
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Revocations and savings provisionRevocations and savings provision
4.—(1) The Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973(‘the 1973 Order’) and the Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) (Variation) Order 1993are revoked.
(2) The revocations do not affect any adoption designated as an overseas adoption by virtue of the 1973 Order prior to the coming into force of this Order.
Edward Timpson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families
Department for Education
18th July 2013
SCHEDULE
Article 2(1)
SCHEDULE
Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Canada
Cape Verde
Chile
The People’s Republic of China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
The Republic of Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Greenland)
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Estonia
Fiji
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Guinea
Hungary
Iceland
India
The Republic of Ireland
Israel
Italy
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Latvia
Lesotho
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Madagascar
Mali
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
The Republic of Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
The Netherlands (including the...
