SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 Amendments of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978

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In section 3(3) (factors to be considered by Secretary of State in considering application for approval of adoption society), after paragraph (a) insert—

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the procedures in accordance with which the applicant deals with, or as the case may be proposes to deal with, complaints arising in relation to its exercise of its functions and, where the applicant is already an approved adoption society, the manner in which it deals with particular complaints,