Children and Adoption Act 2006

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

  Section 17 - Short title, commencement and extent

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