39 Status conferred by adoption
Adoption Act 1976 (1976 c 36) | Legislation

39  Status conferred by adoption

(1)     An adopted child shall be treated in law—

(a)     where the adopters are a married couple, as if he had been born as a child of the marriage (whether or not he was in fact born after the marriage was solemnized);

(b)     in any other case, as if he had been born to the adopter in wedlock (but not as a child of any actual marriage of the adopter).

(2)     An adopted child shall, subject to [subsections (3) and (3A)], be treated in law as if he were not the child of any person other than the adopters or adopter.

(3)     In the case

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