# The Local Authority Adoption Service and Miscellaneous Amendments (Wales) Regulations 2003, Regulation 19: Amendments to the Registration of Social Care and Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002


The Registration of Social Care and Independent Health Care (Wales) Regulations 2002) are amended as follows —
(a) in regulation 2 (1) at the appropriate place, insert —
“ “the 1976” Act means the Adoption Act 1976”;
“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”;
“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;”;
(b) in the definition of “appropriate office”, after subsection (e) insert —
“(f) in relation to an adoption service —
(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;
(ii) in any other case, any office of the National Assembly.”;
(c) In the definition of “statement of purpose”, after subsection (e) insert —
“(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;
(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”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/710/regulation/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-service-and-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-19
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