{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-of-children-from-overseas-walesamendment-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-of-children-from-overseas-walesamendment-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/1634",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption of Children from Overseas (Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-of-children-from-overseas-walesamendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations (Interpretation) remove the reference to and the definition of “the 2001 Regulations”.\n(2) In regulation 3(1)(a) of the Principal Regulations (Duties of an adoption agency and adoption panel functions in respect of a prospective adopter), remove the words “regulation 3(2)(a) of the 2001 Regulations” and substitute the words “regulations made under section 56A of the Adoption Act 1976”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1976 c. 36. Section 56A was inserted by section 14 of the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999 (c. 18). The 2001 regulations, which were made under section 56A, will be ineffective from the day of coming into force of a new section 56A to be introduced by the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/1634/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:10:58.239466+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."
}