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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-and-the-adoption-agencies-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2003/schedule-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/367",
  "legislation_title": "The Voluntary Adoption Agencies and the Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-and-the-adoption-agencies-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2003",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "EVENTS AND NOTIFICATIONS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nEvent:\nTo be notified to:\nRegistration Authority\nSecretary of State\nPlacing Agency\nArea Authority\nPrimary Care Trust\nLocal Health Board\nDeath of child placed for adoption by the agency\nYes\nYes, if the registration authority is the Commission\nYes\nYes\nYes\nReferral to the Secretary of State pursuant to section 2(1)(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1999 of an individual working for the agency\nYes\nSerious illness of, or serious accident sustained by, a child placed for adoption by the agency\nYes\nYes\nYes\nYes\nAny serious complaint about a prospective adopter approved by the agency where no child is placed for adoption with that prospective adopter\nYes\nAny serious complaint about a prospective adopter approved by the agency where a child is placed for adoption with that prospective adopter by the agency\nYes\nYes\nAny serious complaint about a prospective adopter approved by the agency where a child is placed for adoption with that prospective adopter by another agency\nYes\nYes\nYes, if not notified as the placing agency\nInstigation and outcome of any child protection enquiry involving a child placed for adoption by the agency\nYes\nYes",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/235",
      "affecting_title": "The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/367/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:51.062222+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."
}