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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 6U.K.Amendments relating to parenthood in cases involving assisted reproduction

Part 3 U.K.Enactments relating only to Northern Ireland

Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/2203 (N.I. 22))U.K.

68(1)Article 15 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (adoption by one person) is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)In paragraph (3)(a), for the words from “or, by virtue of” to “other parent” substitute “ or, by virtue of the provisions specified in paragraph (3A), there is no other parent ”.

(3)After paragraph (3) insert—

(3A)The provisions referred to in paragraph (3)(a) are—

(a)section 28 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (disregarding subsections (5A) to (5I) of that section), or

(b)sections 34 to 47 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (disregarding sections 39, 40 and 46 of that Act).

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 6 para. 68 wholly in force at 1.9.2009; Sch. 6 para. 74 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 68; Sch. 6 para. 74 in force for certain purposes at 6.4.2009 and at 1.9.2009 otherwise by S.I. 2009/479, art. 6(1)(e){(2)} (with Sch.)