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(1) This Order may be cited as the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2009.
(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.
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(1) The day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule is 20th April 2009.
(2) The subject matter of each provision of the Act specified in column 1 is listed in column 2 of the Schedule.
(3) The provisions of the Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule come into force only for the purpose of making regulations, orders or rules under the provision so specified.
ADAM INGRAM
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
9th April 2009
SCHEDULE
Article 2


Column 1 Column 2
Provision of the Act Subject matter
Section 3(b) Adoption service: regulations
Section 8 Adoption agencies: regulations about carrying out of functions
Section 9(3) Assessment of needs for adoption support services
Section 13 Regulations
Section 20(1) Restrictions on removal: child placed for adoption with consent
Section 37 Information to be kept about adoptions
Section 38 Disclosure of information kept under relevant enactment
Section 49(7) Reassessment of needs for adoption support services
Section 53(4) (only in relation to paragraphs 1(1), 6(3), (4) and (5), and 7(4) and (11) of schedule 1 to the Act) Adopted Children Register and index
Section 58(5), (6), (7) and (10) Restriction on bringing children into the United Kingdom
Section 59(3) and (6) Preliminary order where child to be adopted abroad
Section 61(1) Regulations under section 58: offences
Section 69(1) Section 68: supplementary provision
Section 71(1)(a), (3) and (4) Adoption allowances schemes
Section 74 Disclosure of medical information about parents
Section 95(2) Duty of children’s hearing to prepare report for court
Section 104 Permanence orders: rules of procedure
Section 106(3) Child subject to supervision requirement: duty to refer to Principal Reporter
Section 108 Rules: appointment of curators ad litem and reporting officers
Section 114 Rules of procedure
Schedule 1 paragraphs 1(1), 6(3), (4) and (5) and 7(4) and (11) Registration of adoptions