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Statutory Instruments
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
Made
1st January 1973
Laid before Parliament
12th January 1973
Coming into Operation
1st February 1973
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 4(3) of the Adoption Act 1968, I hereby make the following Order:—
1. This Order may be cited as the Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973 and shall come into operation on 1st February 1973.
2. The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3.—(1) An adoption of an infant is hereby specified as an overseas adoption if it is an adoption effected in a place in relation to which this Article applies and under the law in force in that place.
(2) As respects any adoption effected before the date on which this Order comes into operation, this Article applies in relation to any place which, at that date, forms part of a country or territory described in Part I or II of the Schedule to this Order and as respects any adoption effected on or after that date, this Article applies in relation to any place which, at the time the adoption is effected, forms part of a country or territory which at that time is a country or territory described in Part I or II of the Schedule to this Order.
(3) In this Article the expression—
“infant” means
“law”
4.—(1) Evidence that an overseas adoption has been effected may be given by the production of a document purporting to be—
(a)a certified copy of an entry made, in accordance with the law of the country or territory concerned, in a public register relating to the recording of adoptions and showing that the adoption has been effected; or
(b)a certificate that the adoption has been effected, signed or purporting to be signed by a person authorised by the law of the country or territory concerned to sign such a certificate, or a certified copy of such certificate.
(2) Where a document produced by virtue of paragraph (1) of this Article is not in English, the Registrar General or the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland, as the case may be, may require the production of an English translation of the document before satisfying himself of the matters specified in section 8 of the Adoption Act 1968.
(3) Nothing in this Article shall be construed as precluding proof, in accordance with the Evidence (Foreign, Dominion and Colonial Documents) Act 1933, or the Oaths and Evidence (Overseas Authorities and Countries) Act 1963 or otherwise, that an overseas adoption has been effected.
Robert Carr
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
Whitehall
1st January 1973
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
Botswana
British Honduras
British Virgin Islands
Canada
Cayman Islands
The Republic of Cyprus
Dominica
Fiji
Ghana
Gibraltar
Guyana
Hong Kong
Jamaica
Kenya
Lesotho
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Montserrat
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pitcairn
St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla
St. Vincent
Seychelles
Singapore
Southern Rhodesia
Sri Lanka
Swaziland
Tanzania
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
Zambia
Austria
Belgium
Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroes)
Finland
France (including Réunion, Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guyana)
The Federal Republic of Germany and Land Berlin (West Berlin)
Greece
Iceland
The Republic of Ireland
Israel
Italy
Luxembourg
The Netherlands (including Surinam and the Antilles)
Norway
Portugal (including the Azores and Madeira)
South Africa and South West Africa
Spain (including the Balcarics and the Canary Islands)
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
The United States of America
Yugoslavia
This Order designates overseas adoptions for the purposes of the Adoption Act 1968. By section 4(1) and (2) of that Act an overseas adoption is treated as an adoption made under the Adoption Act 1958 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2, C.5) for the purpose of certain enactments (which relate to adopted children). Article 4 concerns the manner of proof of an overseas adoption.
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