{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/16",
  "legislation_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Requirements following the child’s arrival in Northern Ireland but no Convention adoption is made in the State of origin",
  "text": "Regulations 13 to 17 apply where, following agreement between the Central Authority and SOCA under Article 17(c) of the Convention that the adoption may proceed, no Convention adoption is made or applied for in the State of origin but the child is placed with the prospective adopter in the State of origin and he then returns to Northern Ireland with the child.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in operation at 1.6.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/16",
      "affecting_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/16/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:14.848133+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."
}