# The Adoption Support Services Regulations 2005, Regulation 2B: Circumstances in which information need not be provided


(1) A local authority are not required to provide information specified in, or prescribed under, section 4B(2) of the Act to a person who—
(a) has already received that information from the local authority within the preceding twelve months and the information has not changed substantively in that time, or
(b) has informed the local authority that they do not want to receive that information,
unless the local authority are satisfied that there are valid reasons for providing the information.
(2) Where—
(a) a person listed in section 4B(1)(a) of the Act makes a request for information about adopting a child, or
(b) a person listed in section 4B(1)(d) of the Act makes a request for any of the information listed in section 4B(2) of the Act,
and the local authority refuses that request, the local authority must give that person reasons for their refusal.
(3) Where a person within the local authority’s area who is a parent of an adopted child requests any information listed in section 4B(2) of the Act and that information is about a particular adoption support service, the local authority must—
(a) ask that person if they would like any of the other information listed in section 4B(2) of the Act and regulation 2A, and
(b) if appropriate, only provide information about the particular adoption support service requested.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/691/regulation/2B (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-support-services-regulations-2005/regulation-2B
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