{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-suitability-of-adopters-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-suitability-of-adopters-regulations-2005/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110723295",
  "legislation_title": "The Suitability of Adopters Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-suitability-of-adopters-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, “the Foreign Element Regulations” means the Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005.\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/ . The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005 set out additional requirements in relation to assessment of suitability to adopt a child who is habitually resident outside the British Islands."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/389. The Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005 set out the procedure for carrying out an assessment of suitability to adopt a child in respect of a prospective adopter."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110723295/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:27.886084+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."
}