The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005 No. 392

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 392

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005

Made

24th February 2005

Laid before Parliament

2nd March 2005

Coming into force

30th December 2005

The Secretary of State for Education and Skills, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 1(1), (3) and (5) of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999(1) and sections 83(4), (5), (6) and (7), 84(3) and (6), 140(7) and (8), 142(4) and (5) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002(2), and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, after consultation with the National Assembly for Wales (3), hereby makes the following Regulations:–

(1)

1999 c. 18. Section 1 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (“the 1999 Act”) enables the Secretary of State to make regulations to give effect to the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption, concluded at the Hague on 29 May 1993 (“the Convention”).

(2)

2002 c. 38.

(3)

By virtue of section 16(1) of the 1999 Act and section 83(9) of the Act, the powers under those sections are exercisable after consultation with the National Assembly for Wales.