Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (2022 c. 18 (N.I.))
- Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (2022 c. 18 (N.I.))
- PART 1 Adoption
- CHAPTER 1 Introductory
- 1 Considerations applying to the exercise of powers
- CHAPTER 2 The Adoption Service
- The Adoption Service
- 2 Basic definitions
- 3 Adoption authority
- 4 The Adoption Service
- 5 Assessments etc. for adoption support services
- 6 Adoption support services: duty to provide information
- 7 Arrangements on cancellation of registration
- 8 Inactive or defunct adoption societies, etc.
- Regulations
- 9 General power to regulate adoption agencies
- 10 Management, etc., of agencies
- 11 Fees
- 12 Independent review of qualifying determinations of adoption agencies
- Supplemental
- 13 Information concerning adoption
- 14 Inspection of premises, etc.
- CHAPTER 3 Placement for adoption and adoption orders
- Placement of children by adoption agency for adoption
- 15 Placement for adoption by agencies
- 16 Placing children with parental consent
- 17 Advance consent to adoption
- 18 Placement orders
- 19 Applications for placement orders
- 20 Varying placement orders
- 21 Revoking placement orders
- 22 Parental responsibility
- 23 Contact
- 24 Contact: supplementary
- 25 Further consequences of placement
- 26 Further consequences of placement orders
- Removal of children who are or may be placed by adoption agencies
- 27 General prohibitions on removal
- 28 Recovery by parent etc. where child not placed or is a baby
- 29 Recovery by parent etc. where child placed and consent withdrawn
- 30 Recovery by parent etc. where child placed and placement order refused
- 31 Placement orders: prohibition on removal
- 32 Return of child in other cases
- Removal of children in non-agency cases
- 33 Restrictions on removal
- 34 Applications for adoption
- 35 Authority foster parents
- 36 Partners of parents
- 37 Other non-agency cases
- Breach of restrictions on removal
- 38 Recovery orders
- Preliminaries to adoption
- 39 Child to live with adopters before application
- 40 Reports where child placed by agency
- 41 Notice of intention to adopt
- 42 Suitability of adopters
- The making of adoption orders
- 43 Adoption orders
- 44 Conditions for making adoption orders
- 45 Restrictions on making adoption orders
- 46 Applications for adoption
- 47 Adoption by couple
- 48 Adoption by one person
- Post-adoption contact
- 49 Post-adoption contact
- 50 Orders under section 49: supplementary
- Placement and adoption: general
- 51 Parental etc. consent
- 52 Modification of Children Order in relation to adoption
- 53 Disclosing information to prospective adopters
- 54 Revocation of adoptions on legitimation
- Disclosure of information about a person’s adoption
- 55 Information to be kept about a person’s adoption
- 56 Restrictions on disclosure of protected etc. information
- 57 Disclosure of other information
- 58 Offence
- 59 Disclosing information to adopted adult
- 60 Disclosing protected information about adults
- 61 Disclosing protected information about children
- 62 Counselling
- 63 Other provision to be made by regulations
- 64 Sections 55 to 64: interpretation
- CHAPTER 4 Status of adopted children
- 65 Meaning of adoption in Chapter 4
- 66 Status conferred by adoption
- 67 Adoptive relatives
- 68 Rules of interpretation for instruments concerning property
- 69 Dispositions depending on date of birth
- 70 Property devolving with peerages etc.
- 71 Protection of trustees and personal representatives
- 72 Meaning of disposition
- 73 Miscellaneous
- 74 Pensions
- 75 Insurance
- CHAPTER 5 Registers
- Adopted Children Register, etc.
- 76 Adopted Children Register
- 77 Searches and copies
- 78 Connections between the register and birth records
- Adoption Contact Register
- 79 Adoption Contact Register
- 80 Adoption Contact Register: supplementary
- 81 Interpretation
- CHAPTER 6 Adoptions with a foreign element
- Bringing children into and out of the United Kingdom
- 82 Restriction on bringing children in
- 83 Giving parental responsibility prior to adoption abroad
- 84 Restriction on taking children out
- 85 Power to modify sections 82 and 84
- Adoptions from abroad: special restrictions
- 86 Declaration of special restrictions on adoptions from abroad
- 87 Review
- 88 The special restrictions
- 89 Imposition of extra conditions in certain cases
- Overseas adoptions
- 90 Overseas adoptions
- Miscellaneous
- 91 Modification of section 66 for Hague Convention adoptions
- 92 Annulment etc. of overseas or Hague Convention adoptions
- 93 Section 92: supplementary
- 94 Overseas determinations and orders
- 95 Power to charge
- CHAPTER 7 Miscellaneous
- Restrictions
- 96 Restriction on arranging adoptions etc.
- 97 Offence of breaching restrictions under section 96
- 98 Restriction on reports
- 99 Prohibition of certain payments
- 100 Excepted payments
- 101 Sections 96 to 100: interpretation
- Information
- 102 Pre-commencement adoptions: information
- Proceedings
- 103 Proceedings for offences
- 104 Appeals
- 105 Privacy
- Children’s court guardians
- 106 Children’s court guardians
- 107 Right of access to adoption agency records
- Evidence
- 108 Evidence of consent
- Orders made in Great Britain, etc.
- 109 Effect of certain Scottish orders and provisions
- 110 Effect of certain orders made in England and Wales
- 111 Use of adoption records from Great Britain, etc.
- 112 Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
- General
- 113 Avoiding delay
- 114 Service of notices etc.
- 115 Jurisdiction of courts
- PART 2 Children order amendments
- 116 Definition of family proceedings
- 117 Article 8 orders: authority foster parents
- 118 Duration of residence orders
- 119 Special guardianship
- 120 Ascertainment of children’s wishes
- 121 Provision of services to children in need, etc.
- 122 Duty of authorities to promote etc. achievement, learning and development, and to prevent disruption to education or training
- 123 Corporate parenting principles
- 124 Placement of looked after children with prospective adopters
- 125 Accommodation for children: requirements
- 126 Authority foster parents
- 127 Duty to ensure visits to and advice etc. for children
- 128 Former relevant children: continuing functions
- 129 Local offer for care leavers
- 130 Inquiries into representations
- 131 Review of cases of looked after children
- 132 Independent advocacy services
- 133 Definition of harm
- 134 Care plans
- 135 Contact: children in care of authority
- 136 Persons authorised to act as children’s court guardian
- 137 Renaming of guardians ad litem
- 138 Interests of children in proceedings
- 139 Definition of privately fostered child
- 140 Welfare of children who will be privately fostered
- 141 Notification of fostering: public awareness
- 142 Privacy for children in proceedings
- 143 Report on the operation of the Children Order
- PART 3 Miscellaneous and supplementary
- Northern Ireland Adoption and Children Act Register
- 144 Northern Ireland Adoption and Children Act Register
- 145 Use of an organisation to establish the register
- 146 Use of an organisation as an agency for payments
- 147 Supply of information for the register
- 148 Disclosure of information
- 149 Search and inspection of the register by prospective adopters
- 150 Search and inspection of the register by adoption agencies
- 151 Supplementary
- Supplementary
- 152 Time limit within which proceedings may be brought
- 153 Research and investigations
- 154 Amendments, transitional and transitory provisions, savings and repeals
- 155 Regulations and orders
- 156 Rules of court
- 157 Supplementary and consequential provision
- 158 Review
- 159 Interpretation
- 160 Commencement
- 161 Short title
- SCHEDULES
- SCHEDULE 1 Registration of adoptions
- Registration of adoption orders
- Registration of adoptions in Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
- Registration of other adoptions
- Amendment of orders and rectification of Registers and other records
- Marking of entries on re-registration of birth on legitimation
- Cancellations in registers on legitimation
- SCHEDULE 2 Disclosure of birth records by Registrar General
- SCHEDULE 3 Minor and consequential amendments
- PART 1 Amendments of primary legislation
- The Legitimacy Act (Northern Ireland) 1928
- The Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976
- The Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985
- The Child Abduction (Northern Ireland) Order 1985
- The Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986
- The Family Law Act 1986
- The Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987
- The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989
- The Armed Forces Act 1991
- The Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991
- The Child Support (Northern Ireland) Order 1991
- The Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992
- The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995
- The Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996
- The Police Act 1997
- The Family Homes and Domestic Violence (Northern Ireland) Order 1998
- The Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002
- The Adoption and Children Act 2002
- The Marriage (Northern Ireland) Order 2003
- The Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation)(Northern Ireland) Order 2003
- The Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003
- The Commissioner for Children and Young People (Northern Ireland) Order 2003
- The Children and Adoption Act 2006
- The Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008
- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
- The Children’s Services Co-operation Act (Northern Ireland) 2015
- The Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016
- The Data Protection Act 2018
- The Health and Social Care Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
- PART 2 Amendments of subordinate legislation
- The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2018
- SCHEDULE 4 Transitional and transitory provisions and savings
- Adoption support services
- Pending applications for freeing orders
- Freeing orders
- Pending applications for adoption orders
- Pending applications for parental orders
- Advertising
- Registration of adoptions
- The Adoption (Hague Convention) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969
- The Child Abduction (Northern Ireland) Order 1985
- SCHEDULE 5 Repeals
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