{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2013/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2013/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/985",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005",
  "text": "In Part 1 of Schedule 3 (offences specified for the purposes of regulation 23(3)(b))—\n(a) in the heading, for the words “regulation 23(3)(b)” substitute “regulation 25(3)(b)”;\n(b) for paragraphs 2 and 3 (offences in Scotland) substitute—\n“2. An offence under section 1 (rape) and section 18 (rape of a young child) of the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009.\n3. An offence specified in Schedule 1 to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 except, in a case where the offender was under the age of 20 at the time the offence was committed.”.\n(c) for paragraphs 7 and 8 (offences in Northern Ireland) substitute—\n“7. An offence under Article 5 (rape) and Article 12 (rape of a child under 13) of the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008.\n8. An offence specified in Schedule 1 to the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, except in the case where the offender was under the age of 20 at the time the offence was committed.”; and\n(d) omit paragraph 10.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2009 (asp.9)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 (c.46)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2008/1769 (N.I. 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1968 c.34."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/985/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:34.994330+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."
}