LegalizeThe Period to Prepare an Adoption Allowances Scheme (Scotland) Order 2009
Made: 29th April 2009
Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 30th April 2009
Coming into force: 28th September 2009
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 71(1) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
1
This Order may be cited as the Period to Prepare an Adoption Allowances Scheme (Scotland) Order 2009 and comes into force on 28th September 2009.
Interpretation
2
type=start slip=2010-04-01 time=1272366653930In this Order “the Act” means the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007.type=end slip=2010-04-01 time=1272366653930
Period to prepare an adoption allowances scheme
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An adoption agency which is a local authority must, within the period of 3 months after the coming into force of section 71 (Adoption allowances schemes) of the Act, prepare an adoption allowances scheme.
Signed
ADAM INGRAM — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 29th April 2009
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order directs that an adoption agency which is a local authority must, within 3 months from the coming into force of section 71 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, prepare an adoption allowances scheme. Section 71 is scheduled to come fully into force on 28th September 2009 and therefore local authorities must prepare adoption allowances schemes by 28th December 2009.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 2007 asp 4.
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