# The Local Authority (Non-agency Adoptions) (Wales) 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 a proposed adoption by one person who no longer has a home in Wales, the prescribed local authority is the local authority for the area in which that person’s last home in Wales was situated.
(3) In the case where the proposed adopters no longer have a home in Wales and shared together the last home they had in Wales, the prescribed local authority is the local authority for the area in which that home was situated.
(4) In the case where the proposed adopters no longer have a home in Wales and did not share together the last home each had in Wales, the prescribed local authority is the local authority which the proposed adopters nominate, being the local authority for the area in which the last home in Wales of one of the adopters was situated.
(5) Where there are two proposed adopters and neither of them has a home in Wales but where one of them has had a home or homes in Wales, the prescribed local authority is the local authority for the area in which the last of that person’s homes in Wales was situated.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/3113/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-authority-non-agency-adoptions-wales-regulations-2005/regulation-3
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