{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suitability-of-adopters-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suitability-of-adopters-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1712",
  "legislation_title": "The Suitability of Adopters Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/suitability-of-adopters-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Cases in which a person is unlikely to be suitable to adopt a child",
  "text": "In a case where regulation 25(7) applies, the matters to be taken into account by the adoption agency in determining, or making any report in respect of, the suitability of any person to adopt a child may be limited to any information received under regulation 25(2), (3) or (4), or other information received as a consequence of which the agency is of the opinion that the prospective adopter is unlikely to be considered to be suitable to adopt a child.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/985",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/985",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1712/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:57:08.152536+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."
}