{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005/regulation-31.json",
  "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/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Convention adoption order",
  "text": "An adoption order shall not be made as a Convention adoption order unless—\n(a) in the case of—\n(i) an application by a couple, both members of the couple have been habitually resident in any part of the British Islands for a period of not less than one year ending with the date of the application; or\n(ii) an application by one person, the applicant has been habitually resident in any part of the British Islands for a period of not less than one year ending with the date of the application;\n(b) the child to be adopted was, on the date on which the agreement under Article 17(c) of the Convention was made, habitually resident in a Convention country outside the British Islands; and\n(c) in a case where one member of a couple (in the case of an application by a couple) or the applicant (in the case of an application by one person) is not a British citizen, the Home Office has confirmed that the child is authorised to enter and reside permanently in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 31 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/2005/392/regulation/31",
    "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."
}