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Scottish Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 341
Children And Young Persons
The Special Restrictions on Adoptions from Haiti (Scotland) Order 2010
Made
23rd September 2010
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
27th September 2010
Coming into force
15th October 2010
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 62(3) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Special Restrictions on Adoptions from Haiti (Scotland) Order 2010 and comes into force on 15th October 2010.
Declaration of special restrictions
2. Special restrictions(2) apply in relation to the bringing of children into the United Kingdom from the Republic of Haiti in the cases mentioned in section 62(2) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.
ADAM INGRAM
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew-s House,
Edinburgh
23rd September 2010
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order applies the special restrictions which are set out in section 64(1) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (-the Act-) in relation to the adoption of children from Haiti. As a result the Scottish Ministers will not be permitted to take any steps to further the bringing of children into the United Kingdom from Haiti for the purposes of adoption, unless they are satisfied that they should do so under section 64(2) of the Act.
2007 asp 4.
-Special restrictions- are defined in section 64(1) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.