{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/38",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Arrangements on cancellation of registration",
  "text": "Where, by virtue of the cancellation of its registration under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14) or Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 2), a body has ceased to be a registered adoption society, the appropriate Minister may direct the body to make such arrangements as to the transfer of its functions relating to children and other transitional matters as seem to him expedient.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 inserted (29.4.2019) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/772), regs. 1(2), 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 30.12.2005 for W. by S.I. 2005/3112, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 30.12.2005 for E. by S.I. 2005/2213, art. 3(c) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2005/2897, arts. 3-16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/38/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:55.944329+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."
}