{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2004/1011",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Support Services (Local Authorities) (Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-local-authorities-wales-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Adoption support services adviser",
  "text": "(1) The local authority shall appoint a person (an “adoption support services adviser”) to carry out the function specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The functions of the adoption support services adviser are to give advice and information, to persons who may be affected by the adoption or proposed adoption of a child, as to —\n(a) services that may be appropriate to those persons; and\n(b) how those services may be made available to them.\n(3) The local authority must only appoint a person as an adoption support services adviser if satisfied that his or her knowledge and experience of —\n(a) the process of adoption; and\n(b) the effect of the adoption of a child on persons likely to be affected by the adoption,\nis sufficient for the purposes of the role of an adoption support services adviser.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.10.2004, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1011/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:52.328598+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."
}