83 Restriction on bringing children in
Adoption and Children Act 2002 (2002 c 38) | Legislation

Chapter 6
Adoptions with a Foreign Element

Bringing children into and out of the United Kingdom

83  Restriction on bringing children in

(1)     This section applies where a person who is habitually resident in the British Islands (the “British resident”)—

(a)     brings, or causes another to bring, a child who is habitually resident outside the British Islands into the United Kingdom for the purpose of adoption by the British resident, or

(b)     at any time brings, or causes another to bring, into the United Kingdom a child adopted by the British resident under an external adoption effected within the period of [twelve] months ending with that time.

The references to adoption, or to a child adopted, by the British resident

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