{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-of-children-from-overseas-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-of-children-from-overseas-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1251",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption of Children from Overseas Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-of-children-from-overseas-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1976 Act” means the Adoption Act 1976;\n“the 1983 Regulations” means the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983;\n“adoption panel” has the same meaning as in the 1983 Regulations;\n“prospective adopter” means a person habitually resident in the British Islands who at any time brings into the United Kingdom for the purpose of adoption (other than adoption by a parent, guardian or relative) a child who is habitually resident outside those Islands.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/1964, as amended by S.I. 1997/649 and 1997/2308."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1251/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:52:31.998548+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."
}