{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-register-regulations-2014/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-register-regulations-2014/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1492",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children Act Register Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-register-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The Adoption and Children Act Register",
  "text": "The register may contain—\n(a) the information in Schedule 1A to the 2005 Regulations about children who an adoption agency or a Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish adoption agency is satisfied are suitable for adoption (“Part 1 of the register”);\n(b) the information in paragraphs 1 to 12 and 14 to 20 of Schedule 1A to the 2005 Regulations about children for whom a local authority in England is considering adoption (“Part 2 of the register”); and\n(c) the information in Schedule 4B to the 2005 Regulations about prospective adopters who an adoption agency or a Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish adoption agency is satisfied are suitable to adopt a child (“Part 3 of the register”).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 25.7.2014, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 125 of the Act for the meaning of “the register”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 131(2)(a) and (2A)(a) of the 2002 Act for the definition of “suitable for adoption”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 22C(9A) of the Children Act 1989 (c.41) (inserted by section 2(3) of the 2014 Act) for the meaning of “considering adoption”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See section 131(2)(b) and (2A)(b) of the 2002 Act for the definition of “suitable to adopt a child”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1492/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:13:43.449543+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."
}