{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-shared-parental-leave-and-paternity-and-adoption-leave-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-2014/regulation-10",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111121542",
  "legislation_title": "The Shared Parental Leave and Paternity and Adoption Leave (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-shared-parental-leave-and-paternity-and-adoption-leave-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Modifications to the Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014 for the purposes of adoptions from overseas",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 3 (interpretation) is modified as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) for the definition of “A” substitute—\n““A”, in relation to C, means the person by whom C has been or is to be adopted, or, in a case where two people have adopted C jointly, whichever of them has elected to be the adopter for the purposes of the Parental and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002;”;\n(b) for the definition of “AP” substitute—\n““AP” means the person who at the date on which C enters Great Britain is married to, or the civil partner or the partner of, A;”; and\n(c) insert the following definitions in the appropriate places alphabetically—\n““enter Great Britain” means enter Great Britain from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of adoption;\n“official notification” means written notification, issued by or on behalf of the relevant central authority, that it is prepared to issue a certificate to the overseas authority concerned with the adoption of C, or that it has issued a certificate and sent it to that authority, confirming, in either case, that A is eligible to adopt, and has been assessed and approved as being a suitable adoptive parent;\n“relevant central authority” means—\n(a) where Part 3 of the Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005 applies to A and A is habitually resident in Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\n(b) where the Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Scotland) Regulations 2009 apply to A and A is habitually resident in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers; and\n(c) in any other case, the Secretary of State.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/392."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/182."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111121542/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:12.738177+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."
}