{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-regulations-2005/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-regulations-2005/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/691",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption Support Services Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Request for assessment",
  "text": "(1) The following persons are prescribed for the purposes of section 4(1)(b) of the Act (persons at whose request an assessment must be carried out)—\n(a) a child of an adoptive parent (whether or not adopted);\n(b) a child who is the natural sibling (whether full or half-blood) of an adoptive child;\n(c) a related person in relation to an adoptive child.\n(2) Where the request of a person falling within section 4(1)(a) of the Act or paragraph (1) for an assessment relates to a particular adoption support service, or it appears to the local authority that the person’s needs for adoption support services may be adequately assessed by reference to a particular adoption support service, the local authority may carry out the assessment by reference only to that service.\n(3) In assessing a person’s needs for adoption support services the local authority are not required to assess the person’s need for a service if he is not within the description of persons to whom provision of the service must be extended by virtue of regulation 4.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/691/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:03:59.688819+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."
}