{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-amendment-rules-2003/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-amendment-rules-2003/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/183",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption (Amendment) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-amendment-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Adoption Rules 1984",
  "text": "In Form 8—\n(a) where “foreign adoption” appears insert “/a Convention adoption order”;\n(b) omit “and whereas … (and …) was/were appointed reporting officer(s) (and . . . was appointed children’s guardian of the child” and substitute “and whereas . . . who is an officer of CAFCASS appointed to act on behalf of the child/and whereas . . . who is an officer CAFCASS appointed to prepare a report”; and\n(c) at the end of the note to the preamble add “In every Convention case an officer of CAFCASS is appointed to act on behalf of the child. Where a foreign adoption is proposed an officer of CAFCASS is appointed to report.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/183/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:32:58.212206+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}