{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Registrable foreign adoption",
  "text": "For the the purposes of paragraph 3(5) of Schedule 1 to the Act (meaning of registrable foreign adoption), the prescribed requirement is that at the time the Convention adoption or overseas adoption is effected, the adoptive parent or, in the case of a couple, both adoptive parents, are habitually resident in England or Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Convention adoption” is given a meaning by virtue of section 66(1)(c) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 87(1) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/924/regulation/3",
    "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."
}