The Adoption Agencies (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005

1.—(1) The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 13 (requirements applicable in respect of eligibility and suitability)—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) A couple or a person who wishes to adopt a child habitually resident in a Convention country outside the British Islands must notify the agency that they want to adopt a child, and give the agency any information it may require for the purposes of the pre-assessment process set out in Part 4 of the Agencies Regulations or corresponding Welsh provision.”;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (a), for the words from “in Wales” to “(as the case may be)” substitute—

“may not proceed with the pre-assessment process referred to in paragraph (1), unless at the date of that notification—”, and

(ii) in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), for “an application”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “a notification” and for “date of application”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “date of notification”.

(3) In regulation 15 (procedure in respect of carrying out an assessment), in paragraph (1), after “Part 4 of the Agencies Regulations” insert “or corresponding Welsh provision”.

(1)

S.I. 2005/392, amended by S.I. 2013/985. There are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations.