{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/voluntary-adoption-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“agency” means a voluntary adoption agency;\n“complaints procedure” shall be constructed in accordance with regulation 12 (1);\n“manager” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 7 (1) (a);\n“organisation” means a body corporate;\n“registered provider” means in relation to an agency, a person who is registered under Part III of the Order as the person carrying on the agency;\n“RQIA” means the Health and Social Care Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority;\n“responsible individual” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 6 (2);\n“statement of purpose” means the written statement compiled in accordance with regulation 4 (1).\n(2) In these Regulations, references to employing a person include employing a person whether or not for payment, and whether under a contract of service or a contract for services, and allowing a person to work as a volunteer, and references to an employee or to a person being employed shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 29.10.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Renamed under the Health and Social Care Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c.1.(N.I))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/289/regulation/2",
    "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."
}