Section 54: Provisions supplementary to ss. 52(3) and 53.

Adoption Act 1976 · 1976 c.36

This provision is repealed

It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.

Part V: Registration and Revocation of Adoption Orders andConvention Adoptions

REPEALED on 2005-12-30 by Adoption and Children Act 2002.
The text below is from the dated revised snapshot immediately preceding this status change. It is historical and is not current law. View the historical source.

54(1)

Any application for an order under section ... 53 or a decision under section 53(3) shall be made in the prescribed manner and within such period, if any, as may be prescribed.

54(2)

No application shall be made under section ... section 53(1) in respect of an adoption unless immediately before the application is made the person adopted or the adopter habitually resides in England and Wales or, as the case may be, both adopters habitually reside there.

54(3)

In deciding in pursuance of section 53 whether such an authority as is mentioned in section 59 was competent to entertain a particular case, a court shall be bound by any finding of fact made by the authority and stated by the authority to be so made for the purpose of determining whether the authority was competent to entertain the case.

54(4)

In section 53—

“determination” means such a determination as is mentioned in section 59 of this Act;
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