{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/888",
  "legislation_title": "The Disclosure of Adoption Information (Post-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n“appropriate adoption agency” has the same meaning as in section 65(1) of the Act;\n“independent review panel” means a panel constituted under section 12 of Act;\n“registered adoption support agency” means an adoption support agency which is—\n(a)in relation to England, an adoption support agency in respect of which a person is registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000, or\n(b)registered as a provider in Wales of an adoption service under Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016;\n“the registration authority” means Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills;\n“relative” in relation to an adopted person means a person who, but for the adoption, would be related to him by blood (including half-blood) , marriage, civil partnership, or by virtue of sections 27 to 29 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 or sections 33 to 47 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008;\n“section 56 information” means the information prescribed by regulation 4.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (29.4.2019) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.4.2007) by The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/603), regs. 1, 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 73"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.9.2009) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Consequential Amendments and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1892), art. 1(1)(a), Sch. 1 para. 14 (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 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/2005/888/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:41.257094+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."
}