Children and Adoption Act 2006

The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (c 20) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Children and Adoption Act 2006[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision as regards contact with children; to make provision as regards family assistance orders; to make provision about risk assessments; to make provision as regards adoptions with a foreign element; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2006 c 20
Territorial extent	England and Wales, except that sections 9 to 11, 12(1) to (5) and (7), 16 and 17 also extend to Northern Ireland and the amendment or repeal of an enactment has the same extent as the enactment to which it relates.[2]
Dates
Royal assent	21 June 2006
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The precursors of the Act are:[3]

• Parental Separation: Children's Needs and Parents' Responsibilities (Cm 6273), a green paper published in July 2004
• Parental Separation: Children's Needs and Parents' Responsibilities: Next Steps (Cm 6452), published in January 2005
• The Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill, published on 2 February 2005
• The Report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill, published on 12 April 2005
• The Government Reply to the Report from the Joint Committee on the Draft Children (Contact) and Adoption Bill (Cm 6583), published on 8 June 2005

Section 17 - Short title, commencement and extent

The following orders have been made under this section:

• The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2287 (C. 86))
• The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1798 (C. 76))
• The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2870 (C. 127))
• The Children and Adoption Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2612 (C. 124))
• Children and Adoption Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1) (Wales) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/733 (W. 65) (C. 31))

See also

• Children Act

References

• Halsbury's Statutes,

1. The citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by section 17(1) of this Act.
2. The Children and Adoption Act 2006, sections 17(6) to (8)
3. Explanatory notes, paragraphs 3 and 4

External links

• The Children and Adoption Act 2006, as amended from the National Archives.
• The Children and Adoption Act 2006, as originally enacted from the National Archives.
• Explanatory notes to the Children and Adoption Act 2006.