Explanatory note

These Regulations make amendments to the Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) and (3) make amendments to regulations 16 and 17 of the principal Regulations in consequence of the introduction of new section 4A of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995^f1.

Regulation 2(5) and (6) introduces new provisions to prescribe the information which must be provided under section 105(2)(b) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 when a local authority intends to make an application for a permanence order or becomes aware that an application for an adoption order has been, or is to be, made.

Regulation 2(4) and (7) corrects a typographical error in regulation 18 of and Schedules 2 and 5 to the principal Regulations respectively.