{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-19.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/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Prescribed requirements for the purposes of making a Convention adoption order",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Article 16A of the 1987 Order (requirements in respect of adoption order made as a Convention adoption order), the prescribed requirements are, in the case where the United Kingdom is the receiving State–\n(a) both spouses (in the case of an application made by a married couple) or the applicant (in the case of an application made by one person) have been habitually resident in part of the British Islands for a period of not less than one 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 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": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in operation at 1.6.2003, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 16A of the 1987 Order was inserted by section 3 of the 2001 Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1981 c. 61"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/16",
      "affecting_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1514",
      "affecting_title": "The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1514",
      "affecting_title": "The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1514",
      "affecting_title": "The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1514",
      "affecting_title": "The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/16/regulation/19",
    "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."
}