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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-review-of-determinations-hague-convention-adoptions-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1868",
  "legislation_title": "The Independent Review of Determinations (Hague Convention Adoptions and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made under the Adoption Act 1976. They apply to England only.\nThe Independent Review of Determinations (Adoption) Regulations 2004 (“the 2004 Regulations”) make provision for the review by an independent panel of a “qualifying determination”, being a determination made by an adoption agency under the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983 (“the 1983 Regulations”) that it does not propose to approve a prospective adopter as suitable to be an adoptive parent. The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations 2003 (“the 2003 Regulations”) make provision for, inter alia, an adoption agency to determine the suitability of a prospective adopter who is habitually resident in the British Islands to be an adoptive parent of a child who is habitually resident in a Convention country outside the British Islands.\nRegulations 2 and 3 of these Regulations make amendments to the 2003 Regulations and to the 2004 Regulations to bring determinations on the suitability of a prospective adopter to be an adoptive parent made under the 2003 Regulations within the scope of the review mechanism provided for in the 2004 Regulations, where the adoption agency’s panel’s most recent consideration of the prospective adopter’s suitability to be an adoptive parent takes place on or after 20th August 2004.\nRegulation 4 of these Regulations makes a minor amendment to regulation 11A of the 1983 Regulations.\nThe regulatory impact assessment prepared for the 2004 Regulations has been amended to include references to the 2003 Regulations. A copy has been placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies of the regulatory impact assessment can be obtained from the Adoption Team, Looked After Children Division, Area 104, Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG, or viewed at http://www.dfes.gov.uk/adoption/lawandguidance/index.shtml#ria or www.dfes.gov.uk/ria.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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