{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-foreign-adoptions-regulations-2003/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-foreign-adoptions-regulations-2003/regulation-4.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": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Person who may make an application",
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the 1976 Act (persons who may make an application), the specified persons are—\n(a) in the case of—\n(i) an adoption by a married couple, one of the adoptive parents of the adopted child;\n(ii) an adoption by one person, the adoptive parent of the adopted child;\n(b) any other person who has parental responsibility within the meaning of section 3 of the Children Act 1989 for the adopted child;\n(c) the adopted child who has attained the age of 18 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1255/regulation/4",
    "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."
}