{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-scotland-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2003/19",
  "legislation_title": "The Intercountry Adoption (Hague Convention) (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/intercountry-adoption-hague-convention-scotland-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Act 1999;\n“the 1978 Act” means the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978;\n“the 2001 Regulations” means the Adoption of Children from Overseas (Scotland) Regulations 2001;\n“the Adoption Agencies Regulations” means the Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 1996 subject to the modifications set out in Schedule 4;\n“adoption agency” means a local authority or an approved adoption society which is an accredited body for the purposes of the Convention;\n“adoption panel” has the same meaning as in the Adoption Agencies Regulations;\n“contact order” has the same meaning as in section 11(2) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995;\n“eligible to adopt”, except in regulations 6(7)(a) and 9(1) has the meaning given in regulation 5;\n“local authority” in Part 3 means a local authority acting in its capacity as an adoption agency;\n“prospective adopter” in Part 2 means a person who makes an application under regulation 3;\n“receiving State” has the same meaning as in the Convention;\n“relevant local authority” in Part 2 has the meaning given in regulation 13;\n“RSCA” means, in relation to a Convention country other than the United Kingdom, the Central Authority of the receiving State;\n“SOCA” means, in relation to a Convention country other than the United Kingdom, the Central Authority of the State of origin;\n“State of origin” has the same meaning as in Article 2 of the Convention.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2001/236."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/3266."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 2(3) of the 1999 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1995 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/19/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:38:33.483972+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."
}