{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-regulations-2005/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-regulations-2005/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/389",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Request to appoint an officer of the Service or a Welsh family proceedings officer",
  "text": "Where the parent or guardian of the child resides in England and Wales and is prepared to consent to the placement of the child for adoption under section 19 of the Act and, as the case may be, to consent to the making of a future adoption order under section 20 of the Act, the adoption agency must request the CAFCASS to appoint an officer of the Service or the National Assembly for Wales to appoint a Welsh family proceedings officer for the purposes of the signification by that officer of the consent to placement or to adoption by that parent or guardian and send with that request the information specified in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20 inserted (30.12.2005) by The Adoption and Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3482), regs. 1, 5(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "See section 11(3) of the Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000 (c. 43)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "See section 35(4) of the Children Act 2004 (c. 31)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/389/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:09:30.220847+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."
}