{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-guardianship-regulations-2005/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-guardianship-regulations-2005/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1109",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Guardianship Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-guardianship-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Arrangements for securing provision of services",
  "text": "(1) The following are prescribed for the purposes of section 14F(9)(b) of the Act (persons who may provide special guardianship support services)—\n(a) a registered adoption society;\n(b) a registered adoption support agency;\n(c) a registered fostering agency;\n(d) a Local Health Board , an integrated care board and NHS England;\n(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) “registered adoption society” has the same meaning as in the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n(b) “adoption support agency” has the same meaning as in the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n(c) “fostering agency”—\n(a) in relation to England, means a fostering agency within the meaning of section 4(4) of the Care Standards Act 2000, and\n(b) in relation to Wales, means a fostering service within the meaning of paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016;\n(d) “registered” in relation to any such agency means that a person is registered in respect of it under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000 or Part 1 of the Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1)(d) substituted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 82(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(1)(3) (with Sch. para. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Instrument substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(e) omitted (5.5.2010) by virtue of The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) (Local and Subordinate Legislation) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1172), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 56(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 4(2)(b)-(d) substituted for reg. 4(2)(b) (29.4.2019) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/237), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1109/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:59:44.380384+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."
}