{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-144",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-144.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2016/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/144",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "144",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 57ZS (placement of looked after children with prospective adopters)—\n(a) after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) Subsection (2B) applies where a local authority in Wales notifies a person—\n(a) who is a local authority foster parent, and\n(b) who has been approved as prospective adopter,\nthat a child is to be, or is expected to be, placed with that person under section 81 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.\n(2B) Where this subsection applies, sections 57ZJ, 57ZL, 57ZN and 57ZP have effect as if—\n(a) references to adoption or placement for adoption were references to placement of a child under section 81 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 with a local authority foster parent who has been approved as a prospective adopter;\n(b) references to placing for adoption were references to placing a child under section 81 of that Act with a local authority foster parent who has been approved as a prospective adopter;\n(c) references to an adoption agency were references to a local authority in Wales.”;\n(b) in subsection (3) after “Children Act 1989” insert “or section 81 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 144 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 57ZS was inserted by the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), section 128(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/413/regulation/144",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:17.878837+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."
}