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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Functions of the local authority following child’s entry into the United Kingdom",
  "text": "(1) Where notice is given to a local authority in accordance with regulation 26, the functions imposed on the authority by virtue of regulation 5 apply subject to the modifications in paragraph (2).\n(2) Paragraph (2) of regulation 5 applies as if–\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a)–\n(i) in paragraph (i) for “relevant foreign authority” there were substituted “CA of the State of origin and competent authorities of the State of origin”;\n(ii) for paragraph (v) there were substituted–\n“(v) the Central Authority”; and\n(b) sub-paragraphs (b) to (d) were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/182/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:01:32.724472+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."
}