{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scotlands-adoption-register-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2016/9780111030882",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland’s Adoption Register Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scotlands-adoption-register-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 117(5) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, for approval by the Scottish Parliament.\nChildren And Young Persons\nMade 2016\nComing into force 1st April 2016\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13A(2) of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with section 117(5) of that Act, a draft of these Regulations has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 13A was inserted by section 75 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 8)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2007 asp 4 (“the Act”)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2016/9780111030882/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:34:29.477471+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."
}