{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-4.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": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "APPLICATION, WITH MODIFICATIONS, OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE ADOPTION AGENCIES REGULATIONS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nProvisions of the Adoption Agencies Regulations\nModifications (if any)\nRegulation 7\nIn relation to a case where the United Kingdom is the receiving State, as if regulation 7 were omitted.\nRegulations 8 to 12\nAs if regulations 8 to 12 were omitted.\nRegulation 14\nAs if in paragraph (2) the words–\n(i) “regulations 7(2)(a), 8(2)(a) or 9(3)” were substituted by the words “regulations 7(2)(a) or under the Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003”; and\n(ii) “these regulations” were substituted by the words “those regulations”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 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/schedule/4",
    "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."
}