The Courts Act 2003 (Commencement No. 12 and Transitional Provision) Order 2005

Transitional provision

4.  Sections 137(1) and 138 of, and Part 1 of Schedule 6 to, the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 are to continue to have effect for the purposes of an application under the following sections of the Adoption Act 1976(1)—

(a) section 20 (revocation of a section 18 order);

(b) section 27(1) or (2) (restriction on removal of child where adoption pending or application made under section 18); and

(c) section 29 (return of child taken away in breach of section 27).

(1)

1976 c. 36, section 20 was amended by section 88 of, and Schedule 10, paragraph 8(1) and (2) to, the Children Act 1989 (c. 41) and by section 139(2) of, and paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 4 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38). Sections 27 and 29(1) and (2) were substituted by section 88 of, and Schedule 10, paragraphs 12 and 15 to, the Children Act 1989. The Adoption Act 1976 is repealed, with savings, by section 139(3) of, and Schedule 5 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38).