Section 58A: Information concerning adoption.

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This provision is repealed

It is retained for historical reference and may not reflect the law currently in force.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

REPEALED on 2005-12-30 by Adoption and Children Act 2002.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.

58A(1)

Every local authority and every appropriate voluntary organisation shall transmit to the Secretary of State, at such times and in such form as he may direct, such particulars as he may require with respect—

(a) to their performance of all or any of their functions under the enactments mentioned in subsection (2) below; and

(b) to the children and other persons in relation to whom they have exercised those functions.

58A(2)

The enactments referred to in subsection (1) above are—

(a) the Adoption Act 1958;

(b) Part I of the Children Act 1975; and

58A(3)

The justices’ chief executive for each magistrates’ court shall transmit to the Secretary of State, at such times and in such form as he may direct, such particulars as he may require with respect to the proceedings of the court under the enactments mentioned in subsection (2) above.

58A(4)

The Secretary of State shall publish from time to time abstracts of the particulars transmitted to him under subsections (1) and (3) above.

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