{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-special-restrictions-on-adoptions-from-abroad-regulations-2008/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-special-restrictions-on-adoptions-from-abroad-regulations-2008/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1807",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Special Restrictions on Adoptions from Abroad) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoptions-with-a-foreign-element-special-restrictions-on-adoptions-from-abroad-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Matters to be taken into account",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of paragraph (1) of regulation 4, the matters that the relevant authority is to take into account, whether or not the authority also takes other matters into account, are as follow.\n(2) Where the prospective adopters wish to adopt a particular child, the matters are—\n(a) the circumstances leading to the child becoming available for adoption, including whether any competent authority in the State of origin has made a decision in relation to the adoption or availability for adoption of the child,\n(b) the relationship that the child has with the prospective adopters, including how and when that relationship was formed,\n(c) the child’s particular needs and the capacity of the prospective adopters to meet those needs, and\n(d) the reasons why the State of origin was placed on the restricted list.\n(3) In any other case, the matter is the reasons why the State of origin was placed on the restricted list.\n(4) In this regulation, a “competent authority” means a court or a person who performs functions which correspond to the functions of an adoption agency or to the functions of the Secretary of State in respect of intercountry adoption, and “adoption agency” has the meaning given in section 2 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Restricted list” is defined in section 9(8) of the Act as the list of restricted countries."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2002 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1807/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:28:00.190399+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."
}