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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3390",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authority (Adoption) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n“the Agencies Regulations” means the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005;\n“the Foreign Element Regulations” means the Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005;\n“proposed adopter” has the same meaning as in section 44(1) of the Act; and\n“social worker” means a person who is registered in—\n(a) the register for social workers maintained in accordance with section 56 of the Care Standards Act 2000;\n(b) the register maintained by the Scottish Social Services Council under section 44 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001; or\n(c) the register maintained by the Northern Ireland Social Care Council under section 3 of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/389."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/392."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2000 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2001 asp8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2001 c. 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2017/52",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2017/52",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3390/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:05.032204+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."
}