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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-foreign-adoptions-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/255",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Foreign Adoptions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-foreign-adoptions-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Persons who may make an application",
  "text": "For the purpose of Article 53(3B) of the Order (Prescribed person who may make an application) a prescribed person is: –\n(a) in the case of a couple, one of the adoptive parents;\n(b) in the case of a sole adoptive parent, that parent;\n(c) the adopted person who is over the age of 18 years;\n(d) any person who has acquired parental responsibility within the meaning of Article 6 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/255/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:02:43.497271+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."
}