Regulation 6 Transitional provisions in relation to prospective adopters
Not more than 12 weeks after the date on which these Regulations come into force, an adoption agency shall, so far as practicable, take steps to obtain information about—
any previous criminal convictions of each person with whom a child is currently placed for adoption or with whom it proposes to place a child for adoption (“the prospective adopter”) and each member of those persons' households over the age of 18; and
any caution given by a constable in respect of criminal offences to any person mentioned in paragraph (a),
unless that information was obtained by the agency, or another adoption agency, at the time when that agency was considering whether the prospective adopter was suitable to be an adoptive parent in accordance with regulation 8 of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983f1.