{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-services-wales-regulations-2019/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2019/291",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authority Adoption Services (Wales) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-adoption-services-wales-regulations-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Social Care, Wales\nMade 17 February 2019\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 19 February 2019\nComing into force 29 April 2019\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9(1) and (3), and 10 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2002 c. 38; section 144(1) of the Act defines “regulations” as meaning regulations made by the appropriate Minister, unless they are required to be made by the Lord Chancellor, the Secretary of State or the Registrar General. Section 144(1) defines “appropriate Minister” in relation to Wales as meaning the National Assembly for Wales. The power conferred on the National Assembly for Wales to make regulations under the Act transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/291/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}