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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-adoption-support-agencies-wales-regulations-2026/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/12",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Support Services (Adoption Support Agencies) (Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-adoption-support-agencies-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "children and young persons, wales\nSocial care, wales\nMade 23 January 2026\nComing into force 1 April 2026\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(6)(b), 140(7), and 142(4) and (5)(a) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002, make the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 38 (“the 2002 Act”). See the definitions of “appropriate Minister”, “the Assembly” and “regulations” in section 144(1). The powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales to make regulations under the 2002 Act transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/12/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:00.476264+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."
}