Regulation 4 Amendments to the 2007 Regulations

In regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a)

before the definition of “the Act”, insert—

““the 2017 Act” means the Guardianship (Missing Persons) Act 2017^f1;”;

(b)

in the definition of “court”, at the end insert “or in relation to proceedings under the 2017 Act the court for the time being designated by the Lord Chancellor under section 23 of the 2017 Act;”;

(c)

after the definition of “court”, insert—

““guardian” has the meaning given in the 2017 Act;

“guardianship order” has the meaning given in the 2017 Act;

“missing person” has the meaning given in the 2017 Act;”;

(d)

in the definition of “the registers”—

(i)

in paragraph (b) omit “and”;

(ii)

in paragraph (c), at the end insert “and”;

(iii)

after paragraph (c), insert—

“(d)
the register of guardianship orders,”;

(iv)

after “under section 58(1)(a) and (b)”, insert “and (2A)(a)”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2017 c. 27.