# The Regulated Adoption Services (Service Providers and Responsible Individuals) (Wales) Regulations 2019, Regulation 3: Exceptions

Extent: E+W

(...) The following services are not to be treated as an adoption service, despite paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 to the Act (regulated services: definitions, adoption service)—
(a) the provision of a service in relation to adoption by a person, in the course of a legal activity (within the meaning of the Legal Services Act 2007 ), who is—
(i) an authorised person for the purposes of that Act, or
(ii) a European lawyer (within the meaning of the European Communities (Services of Lawyers) Order 1978 );
(b) the provision of services to enable groups of adoptive children, adoptive parents and birth parents or former guardians of an adoptive child to discuss matters relating to adoption;
(c) the provision of respite care to an adoptive child or an adoptive parent by a care home service or domiciliary support service in respect of which a person is registered under chapter 2 of Part 1 of the Act;
(d) the provision of respite care in relation to an adoptive child consisting of child minding or day care within the meaning in Part 2 of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010 and in respect of which a person is registered for child minding or day care under that Part of that Measure;
(e) the provision of adoption support services by a person who provides those services solely under a contract for services with—
(i) a regulated adoption service, or
(ii) a local authority adoption service;
(f) the provision of counselling in relation to adoption by a person who provides that service solely to individuals who have attained the age of 18.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/762/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/regulated-adoption-services-service-providers-and-responsible-individuals-wales-regulations-2019/regulation-3
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