Statutory Instruments
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
Made
12th March 1993
Laid before Parliament
15th March 1993
Coming into force
5th April 1993
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by sections 67(4) and 72(2) of the Adoption Act 1976(1) and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—
1. This Order may be cited as the Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) (Variation) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 5th April 1993.
2. The Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973(2) (designation) shall be varied as follows—
(a)there shall be inserted at the beginning of paragraph (2) of Article 3 the words “Subject to paragraph (2A) of this Article,”;
(b)after paragraph (2) of Article 3 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“(2A) This Article also applies, as respects any adoption effected on or after 5th April 1993, in relation to any place which, at the time the adoption is effected, forms part of the People’s Republic of China.”
Virginia Bottomley
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Department of Health
12th March 1993
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order includes China among those countries whose adoptions are designated in the Adoption (Designation of Overseas Adoptions) Order 1973, and whose adoption orders are therefore to be recognised in England and Wales.
S.I. 1973/19.