{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/924",
  "legislation_title": "The Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Pre-commencement adoptions: application by adopted person aged 18 or over",
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Act the application by the adopted person must be made in writing and signed by him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulations made under section 98 of the Act may confer functions on the Registrar General for the purpose of assisting persons aged over 18 adopted before the appointed day to obtain information in relation to their adoption, and facilitate contact between such persons and their relatives."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/924/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:00.634076+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}