Introductory Text
PART I GENERAL
1.Citation and interpretation
PART II COMMENCEMENT
2.Appointed day
PART III TRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1 ADOPTION
3.Applications for adoption orders under the 1978 Act
4.Restrictions on removal of children: pending applications for adoption
5.Cases in progress under the Agencies Regulations 1996
CHAPTER 2 INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
6.Application for Convention adoption orders
7.Hague Convention adoption cases in progress
8.Non-Convention adoption cases in progress
9.Non-Convention adoptions: local authority functions following receipt of notice of intention to adopt
10.Applications under section 47 of the 1978 Act
11.Applications under section 49 of the 1978 Act
12.Designation of Overseas Adoptions
CHAPTER 3 PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES ORDERS
13.Parental responsibilities orders made before the appointed day: deemed permanence order
14.Applications for parental responsibilities orders under the 1995 Act
15.Applications to vary, amend or revoke a deemed permanence order
CHAPTER 4 FREEING ORDERS
16.Freeing orders made before the appointed day
17.Deemed permanence order granting authority for the child to be adopted
18.Applications for freeing orders under the 1978 Act
19.Applications to revoke freeing orders under section 20 of the 1978 Act
20.Applications for adoption orders where freeing order in place
21.Applications to vary or revoke a deemed permanence order
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Explanatory Note
Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders
