{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-regulations-2005/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Child to live with adopters before application",
  "text": "(1) In a case where the requirements imposed by section 83(4) of the Act have been complied with and the conditions required by section 83(5) of the Act have been met, section 42 shall apply as if—\n(a) subsection (3) is omitted; and\n(b) in subsection (5) the words from “three years” to “preceding” there were substituted “six months”.\n(2) In a case where the requirements imposed by section 83(4) of the Act have not been complied with or the conditions required by section 83(5) have not been met, section 42 shall apply as if—\n(a) subsection (3) is omitted; and\n(b) in subsection (5) the words from “three years” to “preceding” there were substituted “twelve months”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}