The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005 No. 392

PART 3 ADOPTIONS UNDER THE CONVENTION

CHAPTER 1 REQUIREMENTS, PROCEDURE, RECOGNITION AND EFFECT OF ADOPTIONS WHERE THE UNITED KINGDOM IS THE RECEIVING STATE

Prospective adopter unable to proceed with adoption

26.  Where the prospective adopter gives notice to the relevant local authority that he does not wish to proceed with the adoption and no longer wishes to give the child a home, that authority must—

(a) receive the child from him before the end of the period of seven days beginning with the giving of the notice; and

(b) give notice to the relevant Central Authority of the decision of the prospective adopter not to proceed with the adoption.