{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-2003/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-2003/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/118",
  "legislation_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Prescribed requirements for the purposes of making a Convention adoption order",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 17 of the 1976 Act (requirements in respect of adoption order made as a Convention adoption order), where the United Kingdom is the receiving State the prescribed requirements are—\n(a) both spouses (in the case of an application by a married couple) or the applicant (in the case of an application by one person) have been habitually resident in any part of the British Islands for a period of not less than 1 year ending with the date of the application;\n(b) the child to be adopted has not attained the age of 18 years on the date of the application;\n(c) the child to be adopted was, on the date on which the agreement under Article 17(c) was made, habitually resident in a Convention country outside the British Islands; and\n(d) in a case where the applicant (in the case of an application by one person) or one of the spouses (in the case of an application by a married couple) is not a British citizen by virtue of the British Nationality Act 1981, the Home Office has confirmed that the child is authorised to enter and reside permanently in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 17 of the 1976 Act is amended by section 3 of the 1999 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/118/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:33:22.130288+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."
}