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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-restriction-on-the-preparation-of-adoption-reports-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110723473",
  "legislation_title": "The Restriction on the Preparation of Adoption Reports Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-restriction-on-the-preparation-of-adoption-reports-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n“the 2000 Act” means the Care Standards Act 2000;\n“the Adoption Agencies Regulations” means the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005;\n“the Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations” means the Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005;\n“corresponding Welsh provision”, in relation to the Adoption Agencies Regulations or to a regulation of the Adoption Agencies Regulations, means the provision of regulations made by the Assembly under section 9 of the Act which corresponds to, as the case may be, the Adoption Agencies Regulations or to that regulation of the Adoption Agencies Regulations;\n“Council” means either the English Council or the Welsh Council and “the English Council” and “the Welsh Council” have the same meaning as in section 54 of the 2000 Act;\n“pre-adoption report” means a report prepared otherwise than in accordance with the Adoption Agencies Regulations or corresponding Welsh provision at the request of a relevant foreign authority following the placement for adoption of a child from the country in which that authority performs its functions and prior to that child’s adoption and includes a report prepared in accordance with regulation 29(2) of the Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations;\n“post-adoption report” means a report prepared otherwise than in accordance with the Adoption Agencies Regulations or corresponding Welsh provision at the request of a relevant foreign authority following the adoption of a child from the country in which that authority performs its functions;\n“relevant foreign authority” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations; and\n“social worker” means a person who is registered in—\n(a) the register for social workers maintained in accordance with section 56 of the 2000 Act;\n(b) the register maintained by the Scottish Social Services Council under section 44 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001; or\n(c) the register maintained by the Northern Ireland Social Care Council under section 3 of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/389."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/392."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2001 asp8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2001 c. 3."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}