Adoption Act 1988

Except as otherwise provided in this Act – all persons, things, and circumstances appointed, or created by, or under, the repealed Act or existing or continuing under that Act immediately before the commencement of this section shall, under and subject to this Act, continue to have the same status, operation, and effect as they respectively would have had if that Act had not been repealed; and in particular and without affecting the generality of paragraph (a), the repeal effected by section 120 does not disturb the continuity of status, operation, or effect of any order, authority, application, decision, consent, register, direction, liability, or right made, affected, issued, granted, given, passed, accrued, incurred, acquired, existing, or continuing by, or under, the repealed Act before the commencement of that section.

Subject to this Act, sections 50 and 51, other than subsection (4), apply in relation to an adoption order made under, or continued in force by, a corresponding previous enactment as if this Act had been in force when the order was made and the order had been made under this Act.

In relation to a disposition of property by a person who, or by persons any of whom, died before the commencement of this section, an adoption order referred to in subsection (2) shall have the same effect as if the Act under which it was made were still in operation.

Notwithstanding the repeal effected by section 120, the repealed Act continues to apply to, and in relation to – arrangements and negotiations for the adoption of a child in respect of whom all consents required under that Act for the adoption have been obtained or dispensed with before the commencement of this section; and the making of orders for the adoption of any such child.