{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/890",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Applications that may be accepted",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) an intermediary agency may accept an application from—\n(a) an adopted person for assistance in contacting a relative of his;\n(b) a relative of an adopted person for assistance in contacting—\n(i) the adopted person; or\n(ii) a person with a prescribed relationship to the adopted person; or\n(c) a person with a prescribed relationship to an adopted person for assistance in contacting a relative of an adopted person.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The applicant and the person with whom the applicant seeks contact (“the subject”) must be aged 18 or over.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(1) substituted (31.10.2014) by The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2696), regs. 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2) omitted (31.10.2014) by virtue of The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2696), regs. 1, 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/890/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:39.538783+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."
}