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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-restriction-on-the-preparation-of-adoption-reports-regulations-2005/regulation-3",
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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/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "A person within a prescribed description",
  "text": "(1) A person is within a prescribed description for the purposes of section 94(1) of the Act if—\n(a) he is a social worker who is employed by a local authority or registered adoption society and who satisfies at least one of the conditions set out in paragraph (2)(a) or (b);\n(b) he is a person who—\n(i) is participating in a course approved by a Council under section 63 of the 2000 Act for persons wishing to become social workers;\n(ii) is employed by, or placed with, a local authority or registered adoption society as part of that course; and\n(iii) satisfies the condition set out in paragraph (2)(b); or\n(c) he is acting on behalf of a local authority or a registered adoption society and is a social worker who satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2)(a) and (b).\n(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that the person—\n(a) has at least three years' post-qualifying experience in child care social work, including direct experience of adoption work;\n(b) is supervised by a social worker who—\n(i) is employed by the local authority or registered adoption society in question; and\n(ii) has at least three years' post-qualifying experience in child care social work, including direct experience of adoption work.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110723473/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:27.400001+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."
}