SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2Amendments of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978

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In section 51 (prohibition on certain payments)—

a

in subsection (1), after the word “section” insert “and of section 51A(3)”;

b

in subsection (2), for the words “the court may order any child in respect of whom the offence was committed” substitute “without prejudice to any power which the court has to make any other order in relation to the child as respects whom the offence was committed, it may order him”;

c

in subsection (5)—

i

at the beginning insert “Subject to section 51B,”; and

ii

at the end add “(including any such payment made by virtue of section 51B)”; and

d

subsections (6)(a) and (7) to (11) shall cease to have effect.