The Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (Commencement No. 7) (Scotland) Order 2002
This Order, which extends to Scotland only, brings into force on 14th January 2003 the following provisions of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999:–Section 1 (which enables the Scottish Ministers to make regulations which give effect to the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoptions which was concluded at the Hague on 29th May 1993); andSection 12 (which amends the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978).