46 Adoption orders
Adoption and Children Act 2002 (2002 c 38) | Legislation

The making of adoption orders

46  Adoption orders

(1)     An adoption order is an order made by the court on an application under section 50 or 51 giving parental responsibility for a child to the adopters or adopter.

(2)     The making of an adoption order operates to extinguish—

(a)     the parental responsibility which any person other than the adopters or adopter has for the adopted child immediately before the making of the order,

(b)     any order under the 1989 Act or the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (SI

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