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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2010/289",
  "legislation_title": "The Voluntary Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Staffing of agency",
  "text": "The registered provider and the manager shall ensure that there is, having regard to—\n(a) the size of the agency and the agency’s statement of purpose; and\n(b) the need to safeguard and promote the health and welfare of children who may be or have been placed for adoption—\n(i) by the agency; or\n(ii) by another adoption agency but with prospective adopters approved by the agency as suitable to be adoptive parents in accordance with the Adoption Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 ,\na sufficient number of suitably qualified, competent, and experienced persons working for the purposes of the agency.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in operation at 29.10.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1989 No.253"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/289/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:25:39.910926+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."
}