# The Local Authority (Adoption) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2005, Regulation 3: Prescribed local authorities


(1) For the purposes of section 44(9)(a) of the Act, the following local authorities are prescribed in the following cases.
(2) In the case of the proposed adoption by one person who no longer has his home in England, the prescribed local authority is the local authority for the area in which that person’s last home in England was situated.
(3) In the case of the proposed adoption by a couple who no longer have their home in England and who shared together the last home they had in England, the prescribed local authority is the local authority for the area in which that home in England was situated.
(4) In the case of the proposed adoption by a couple who no longer have their home in England and who did not share together the last home each had in England, the prescribed local authority is the local authority which the couple nominate, being the local authority for the area in which the last home in England of one of them was situated.
(5) In the case of the proposed adoption by a couple only one of whom ever had his home in England, the prescribed local authority is the local authority for the area in which that person’s last home in England was situated.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3390/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2005/regulation-3
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