Expression | Provision |
the 1989 Act | section 2(3) |
adoption (in relation to Chapter IV of Part I) | section 50 |
adoption agency | section 2(1) |
adoption agency placing a child for adoption | section 15(4) |
Adoption Contact Register | section 65 |
adoption order | section 38(1) |
Adoption Service | section 2(1) |
adoption society | section 2(2) |
appointed day (in relation to Chapter IV of Part I) | section 50 |
appropriate Minister | section 107 |
Assembly | section 107 |
body | section 107 |
by virtue of | section 107 |
care order | section 105(1) of the 1989 Act |
child | sections 41(5) and 107 |
child assessment order | section 43(2) of the 1989 Act |
child in the care of a local authority | section 105(1) of the 1989 Act |
child looked after by a local authority | section 22 of the 1989 Act |
child placed for adoption by an adoption agency | section 15(4) |
child to be adopted, adopted child | section 41(5) |
consent (in relation to making adoption orders or placing for adoption) | section 44 |
the Convention | section 107 |
Convention adoption | section 50 |
Convention adoption order | section 107 |
Convention country | section 107 |
court | section 107 |
guardian | section 107 |
interim care order | section 38 of the 1989 Act |
local authority | section 107 |
local authority foster parent | section 23(3) of the 1989 Act |
National Adoption Register | section 96 |
Northern Irish adoption agency | section 107 |
Northern Irish adoption order | section 107 |
notice | section 107 |
notice of intention to adopt | section 37(2) |
overseas adoption | section 69 |
parental responsibility | section 3 of the 1989 Act |
placement order | section 17 |
placing, or placed, for adoption | section 15(4) |
prescribed | section 107 |
registered adoption society | section 2(2) |
registers of live-births | section 107 |
registration authority | section 107 |
regulations | section 107 |
relative | section 107, read with sections 1(8) and 67(5) |
residence order | section 8(1) of the 1989 Act |
rules | section 107 |
Scottish adoption agency | section 107 |
Scottish adoption order | section 107 |
subordinate legislation | section 107 |
supervision order | section 31(11) of the 1989 Act |
voluntary organisation | section 2(3) |