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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-foreign-adoptions-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
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  "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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Registrable foreign adoption",
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 3(4) of Schedule 1 to the 1976 Act (meaning of registrable foreign adoption), the specified requirement is that at the time the Convention or overseas adoption is effected, the adoptive parent, or in the case of a married couple, both adoptive parents, are habitually resident in England or Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1255/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:21.179330+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."
}