{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/1313",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Agencies (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-agencies-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Requirement to obtain information (including health information) about the child’s family",
  "text": "(1) The adoption agency must, so far as is reasonably practicable, obtain the information about the child’s family which is specified in Parts 3 and 4 of Schedule 1.\n(2) The adoption agency must, so far as is reasonably practicable, obtain the information about the health of each of the child’s birth parents and brothers and sisters which is specified in Part 5 of Schedule 1.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 16(2) substituted (1.4.2020) by The Adoption Agencies (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/163), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/1313/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:06:24.223286+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."
}