{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardians-allowance-general-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardians-allowance-general-regulations-2003/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/495",
  "legislation_title": "The Guardian’s Allowance (General) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/guardians-allowance-general-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Adopted children",
  "text": "(1) Where a child or a qualifying young person has been adopted by two persons jointly, a reference in section 77(2) of the Act or section 77(2) of the Northern Ireland Act to the parents of the child or qualifying young person shall be read as a reference to those two persons.\n(2) Where a child or qualifying young person has been adopted by one person only, the circumstances to be satisfied in section 77(2) of the Act or section 77(2) of the Northern Ireland Act are that that person is dead.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Guardian’s Allowance (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/204), regs. 1, 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) substituted (10.4.2006) by The Guardian’s Allowance (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/204), regs. 1, 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) inserted (10.4.2006) by The Guardian’s Allowance (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/204), regs. 1, 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 7.4.2003 (in accordance with reg. 1), see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/495/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:30:55.628630+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."
}