{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Disclosure for purposes of agency’s functions or for research",
  "text": "(1) An adoption agency may disclose section 56 information that is not protected information as it thinks fit for the purposes of carrying out its functions as an adoption agency.\n(2) An adoption agency may disclose section 56 information (including protected information) to—\n(a) a registered adoption support agency or another adoption agency which provides services to the adoption agency in connection with any of its functions under section 61 or 62 of the Act (disclosing protected information about adults or about children); ...\n(b) a person who is authorised in writing by the Secretary of State to obtain information for the purposes of research; or\n(c) another adoption agency as it thinks fit for purposes related to its functions or the receiving agency’s functions as an adoption agency.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8(2)(a) omitted (5.3.2018) by virtue of The Adoption and Care Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/152), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8(2)(c) and word inserted (5.3.2018) by The Adoption and Care Planning (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/152), regs. 1, 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 57(3) of the Act for the meaning of “protected information”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/888/regulation/8",
    "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."
}