Part 1Adoption
Chapter 4Status of Adopted Children
I168 Adoptive relatives
1
A relationship existing by virtue of section 67 may be referred to as an adoptive relationship, and—
a
an adopter may be referred to as an adoptive parent or (as the case may be) as an adoptive father or adoptive mother,
b
any other relative of any degree under an adoptive relationship may be referred to as an adoptive relative of that degree.
2
Subsection (1) does not affect the interpretation of any reference, not qualified by the word “adoptive”, to a relationship.
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A reference (however expressed) to the adoptive mother and father of a child adopted by—
a
a couple of the same sex, or
b
a partner of the child’s parent, where the couple are of the same sex,
is to be read as a reference to the child’s adoptive parents.