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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/392",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Adoption agency decision and notification",
  "text": "The adoption agency must make a decision about whether the prospective adopter is suitable to adopt a child in accordance with regulation 30B of the Agencies Regulations and regulations made under section 45 of the Act, or corresponding Welsh provisions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16 substituted (1.7.2013) by The Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/985), reg. 1, Sch. para. 2(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/392/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:09:27.521157+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."
}