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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2005/2701",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-information-and-intermediary-services-pre-commencement-adoptions-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2002 Act” (“Deddf 2002”) means the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n“the applicant” (“y ceisydd”) means an adopted person or a relative of an adopted person who makes an application under regulation 5;\n“the appropriate adoption agency” (“yr asiantaeth fabwysiadu briodol”) has the same meaning as in section 65(1) of the 2002 Act;\n“identifying information” (“gwybodaeth adnabod”) has the meaning given in regulation 7;\n“intermediary service” (“gwasanaeth cyfryngol”) and “intermediary agency” (“asiantaeth gyfryngol”) have the meanings given in regulation 4;\n“registered adoption support agency” (“asiantaeth cymorth mabwysiadu cofrestredig”) means an adoption support agency in respect of which a person is registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000;\n“relative” (“perthynas”) in relation to an adopted person has the same meaning as in section 98 of the 2002 Act;\n“subject” (“gwrthrych”) in relation to an application under these Regulations means a person with whom the applicant seeks contact.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2015/1802",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2015/1802",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2019/237",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/2701/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:05:39.220484+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."
}