{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scotlands-adoption-register-regulations-2016/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scotlands-adoption-register-regulations-2016/regulation-6.json",
  "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": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Retention of information",
  "text": "(1) As soon as is reasonably practicable after being notified under regulation 4(4) or 5(4) of any change to information provided for inclusion in the Register the Scottish Ministers must amend the Register accordingly.\n(2) As soon as is reasonably practicable after being notified under regulation 4(5) that a child in respect of whom information has been provided for inclusion in the Register has been placed for adoption by an adoption agency with a prospective adopter, the Scottish Ministers must remove from the Register any information relating to that child.\n(3) As soon as is reasonably practicable after being notified under regulation 5(5) that a child has been placed for adoption with a person in respect of whom information has been provided for inclusion in the Register, the Scottish Ministers must remove from the Register any information relating to that person.\n(4) Where information is removed from the Register under this regulation—\n(a) the Scottish Ministers may retain on the Register such of that information as they consider necessary for statistical or research purposes; and\n(b) any information which is retained on the Register must be retained in a form in which any person in respect of whom that information was included in the Register cannot be identified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2016/9780111030882/regulation/6",
    "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."
}