{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-service-and-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-service-and-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/710",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authority Adoption Service and Miscellaneous Amendments (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-service-and-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Registration of Social Care and Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "text": "The Registration of Social Care and Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002) are amended as follows —\n(a) in regulation 2 (1) at the appropriate place, insert —\n“ “the 1976” Act means the Adoption Act 1976”;\n“adoption service” means the discharge by a local authority of relevant adoption functions within the meaning of section 43(3)(a) of the Act and in relation to a local authority means the discharge by that authority of those functions”;\n“voluntary adoption agency” means an adoption society within the meaning of the 1976 Act which is a voluntary organisation within the meaning of that Act;”;\n(b) in the definition of “appropriate office”, after subsection (e) insert —\n“(f) in relation to an adoption service —\n(i) if an office has been specified under regulation 2(2) of the Local Authority Adoption Service and Miscellaneous Amendments (Wales) Regulations 2003, that office;\n(ii) in any other case, any office of the National Assembly.”;\n(c) In the definition of “statement of purpose”, after subsection (e) insert —\n“(f) in relation to a voluntary adoption agency, the written statement required to be compiled in accordance with regulation 3(1) of the Voluntary Adoption Agencies and Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003;\n(g) in relation to an adoption service means the written statement required to be compiled in accordance with regulation 3 (1) of the Local Authority Adoption Service and Miscellaneous Amendments (Wales) Regulations 2003”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/919 (W.107)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1976 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/710/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:11:39.625914+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."
}