Summary Part 2 - Adoptions with a foreign element
12.Part 2 makes provision for the Secretary of State to suspend intercountry adoptions from a country if he has concerns about the practices there in connection with the adoption of children.
13.It also makes other provision for the following other matters relating to intercountry adoption:
	providing a power for the Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales to charge a fee to adopters or prospective adopters for services provided in relation to intercountry adoptions;
	preventing an overlap of functions by local authorities where a child is brought into the country for the purposes of intercountry adoption; and
	amending section 83 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 to make it harder for intercountry adopters to circumvent restrictions on bringing children into the UK.