{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-regulations-2005/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-regulations-2005/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Plan",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies in relation to the requirement in section 4(5) of the Act for the local authority to prepare a plan in accordance with which adoption support services are to be provided.\n(2) The local authority must prepare a plan if they propose to provide adoption support services to a person on more than one occasion and the services are not limited to the provision of advice or information.\n(3) Where it appears to the local authority that the person may have a need for services from an integrated care board, NHS England, a Local Health Board or another local authority, they must consult that body before preparing the plan.\n(4) The local authority must nominate a person to monitor the provision of the services in accordance with the plan.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(1)(3) (with Sch. para. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(3) substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1172), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 55(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 81(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 16(3) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), regs. 1(2), 20(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 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/16",
    "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."
}