{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Veto by an adopted person",
  "text": "(1) A veto applies in relation to an application under regulation 5 or under corresponding Welsh provision where—\n(a) the subject is either the adopted person or a person with a prescribed relationship to the adopted person; and\n(b) the adopted person has notified the appropriate adoption agency in writing—\n(i) that he does not wish to be contacted by an intermediary agency in relation to an application under these Regulations; or\n(ii) that he only wishes to be contacted in specified circumstances.\n(2) Where the appropriate adoption agency is notified of a veto under paragraph (1) it must keep a written record of it on the adopted person’s case record and ensure that it is made known to any intermediary agency that contacts it in relation to an application under these Regulations.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A veto which applies by virtue of a notification given before 31st October 2014 is deemed to apply to any application made by a relative of the adopted person under these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) inserted (10.11.2015) by The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1685), regs. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1)(a) substituted (31.10.2014) by The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2696), regs. 1, 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1)(b) substituted (31.10.2014) by The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2696), regs. 1, 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3) 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, 8(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 8(4) inserted (31.10.2014) by The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2696), regs. 1, 8(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}