PART 8

PART 8
Effects of Adoption orders and of State Recognition of Intercountry Adoptions

SECTION 57

Recognition and effects of intercountry adoption effected outside State.

57.— (1) In this section, "competent authority" includes a person serving in another state in the capacity of a competent authority for the purposes of an intercountry adoption effected outside the State.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), an intercountry adoption effected outside the State that—

(a) if effected at any time before the establishment day—

(i) is an adoption that, at that time, conformed to the definition of "foreign adoption" in section 1 of the Adoption Act 1991, and

(ii) has been certified under a certificate issued by the competent authority of the state of the adoption as having been effected under and in accordance with the law of that state, or

(b) if effected on or after the establishment day, has been certified under a certificate issued by the competent authority of the state of the adoption—

(i) in the case of an adoption referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "intercountry adoption effected outside the State" in section 3(1), as having been