{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-responsibility-agreement-amendment-regulations-2009/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-responsibility-agreement-amendment-regulations-2009/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2026",
  "legislation_title": "The Parental Responsibility Agreement (Amendment) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-responsibility-agreement-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Parental Responsibility Agreement Regulations 1991. They prescribe a form, C(PRA3), to record an agreement under section 4ZA of the Children Act 1989 (c.41) for the acquisition of parental responsibility by a second female parent. Section 4ZA is inserted into the Children Act 1989 by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (c.22) and provides for circumstances in which a woman, who is treated as a parent of a child by virtue of section 43 of the 2008 Act, may acquire parental responsibility for that child.\nThe notes to form C(PRA2) (Step-Parent Parental Responsibility Agreement) are amended to allow for the fact that parental responsibility might be held by persons who were previously in a civil partnership as well as those who were previously married or that a parental responsibility agreement might have been entered into previously by the child’s mother and a second female parent.\nThe amended forms C(PRA2) and C(PRA3) both now ask for the ‘gender’ of the child and for the sake of consistency form C(PRA1) has been similarly amended.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2026/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:07:54.127131+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."
}