{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-recognition-of-overseas-adoptions-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2013/310",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption (Recognition of Overseas Adoptions) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-recognition-of-overseas-adoptions-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Overseas adoptions",
  "text": "An adoption of a child is specified as an overseas adoption if—\n(a) it is an adoption effected under the law of a country or territory listed in the Schedule to these Regulations; ...\n(b) it is not a Convention adoption ; and\n(c) it is an adoption effected on or after the coming into force of these Regulations.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(a) omitted (3.1.2014) by virtue of The Adoption (Recognition of Overseas Adoptions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/335), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 3(c) and word inserted (3.1.2014) by The Adoption (Recognition of Overseas Adoptions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/335), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 3.1.2014, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/310/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:27.421593+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."
}