{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-foreign-adoptions-regulations-2003/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-foreign-adoptions-regulations-2003/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1255",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Foreign Adoptions Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-foreign-adoptions-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations set out the procedure to be followed before the Registrar General is able to make an entry of a registrable foreign adoption in the Adopted Children Register.\nRegulation 2 specifies the requirement that a registrable foreign adoption must satisfy.\nRegulation 3 and Schedules 1 (English version) and 2 (Welsh version) specify the form in which an entry in the Adopted Children Register must be made.\nRegulation 4 specifies who may make an application relating to a child adopted under a registrable foreign adoption to enable an entry in the Adopted Children Register to be made.\nRegulation 5 specifies the manner in which an application should be made to enable an entry in the Adopted Children Register to be made.\nRegulation 6 specifies the particulars that must be given in the application to enable an entry to be made in the Adopted Children Register.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1255/note",
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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."
}