{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-agencies-england-and-adoption-agencies-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-agencies-england-and-adoption-agencies-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2720",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Support Agencies (England) and Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-agencies-england-and-adoption-agencies-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions",
  "text": "(1) A barrister, or a solicitor of the Supreme Court, who is providing adoption support services in the course of his practice as such is not an adoption support agency.\n(2) An undertaking is not an adoption support agency merely because it provides services to enable groups of adoptive children, adoptive parents and natural parents or former guardians of an adoptive child to discuss matters relating to adoption.\n(3) An undertaking is not an adoption support agency merely because it—\n(a) provides respite care in relation to adoption and is a—\n(i) care home,\n(ii) children’s home, or\n(iii) domiciliary care agency,\nin respect of which a person is registered under Part 2 of the 2000 Act; or\n(b) provides respite care in relation to adoption consisting of child minding within the meaning in Part 10A of the Children Act 1989 (“the 1989 Act”) and is registered for child minding under that Part of that Act; or\n(c) provides respite care in relation to adoption consisting of day care within the meaning in Part 10A of the 1989 Act on premises in respect of which it is registered to provide day care under that Part of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Part 10A of the Children Act 1989 was inserted by the Care Standards Act 2000, section 79(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/465",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption Support Agencies (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1261",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption Support Agencies (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1261",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption Support Agencies (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2023/1261",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption Support Agencies (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2720/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:50:10.031974+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."
}