{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-regulations-2005/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-regulations-2005/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/389",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Meetings of adoption panel",
  "text": "(1) No business may be conducted by an adoption panel unless at least the following meet as the panel—\n(a) either the person appointed to chair the panel or one of the vice chairs,\n(b) one person falling within regulation 3(1)(a),\n(c) three, or in the case of an adoption panel established under regulation 4(3) four, other members and where the chair is not present and the vice chair is not an independent person, at least one other panel member must be an independent person.\n(2) An adoption panel must make a written record of its proceedings, its recommendations and the reasons for its recommendations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 3-8 substituted for reg. 3-10 (1.4.2011) by The Adoption Agencies and Independent Review of Determinations (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/589), regs. 1, 2 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/389/regulation/6",
    "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."
}