11.Under the Adoption Act 1976, single people may adopt and only married couples may adopt jointly. The Act provides that adoption orders may be made in favour of single people, married couples and unmarried couples. A definition of “couple”, which covers both married and unmarried couples, is provided in section 144. The definition applies solely for the purposes of this Act.
The data on this page is available in the alternative data formats listed:
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use.
