{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3482",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Representations Procedure (Children) Regulations 1991",
  "text": "(1) In Part 2 (representations and their consideration) of the Representations Procedure (Children) Regulations 1991 immediately before regulation 3 insert—\n“Representations about functions under the Adoption and Children Act 2002\n2A. (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the provision of adoption support services as prescribed by regulation 3 of the Adoption Support Services Regulations 2005 is, for the purposes of section 26(3B) of the Act, a specified function under the Adoption and Children Act 2002.\n(2) The provision of the services prescribed in regulation 3(1)(b) of those Regulations is only a specified function in so far as it is to enable adoptive children to discuss matters relating to adoption.\n(3) In this regulation “adoptive children” means—\n(a) children who have been adopted or in respect of whom notice of intention to adopt has been given under section 44 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002; or\n(b) children whom an adoption agency has matched with prospective adopters or placed for adoption.\nRepresentations about functions under section 14F of the Children Act 1989\n2B. For the purposes of section 26(3C) of the Act, the provision of special guardianship support services under regulation 3(1)(a), (b)(i), and (c) to (e) of the Special Guardianship Regulations 2005 is a specified function.”.\n(2) This regulation applies in relation to England only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/894."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/691."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/1109."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/1738",
      "affecting_title": "The Children Act 1989 Representations Procedure (England) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3482/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:10.615690+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."
}