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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-34",
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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/34",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Convention adoption order",
  "text": "An adoption order may not be made as a Convention adoption order unless–\n(a) in the case of–\n(i) an application for the order by a relevant 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 for the order 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 outwith the British Islands;\n(c) copies of the Article 16 Information and the agreement under Article 17(c) of the Convention are made available to the court; and\n(d) in a case where one member of a relevant couple (in the case of an application by a relevant 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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/182/regulation/34",
    "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."
}