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19.—(1) The Local Authority Adoption Service (Wales) Regulations 2007(1) are amended as follows.
(2) Regulation 7 (natural parents) is amended as follows—
(a)for paragraph (3) substitute—
“(3) This paragraph applies where the father of the child or woman who is a parent of the child by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008(2) does not have parental responsibility for the child and that person’s identity is known to the local authority.”; and
(b)in paragraph (4)—
(i)after “father” insert “or woman who is a parent by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008”, and
(ii)in sub-paragraph (i), for “section 4” substitute “section 4 or 4ZA”.
(3) In regulation 9(1)(d) (adoption panels), for paragraph (vii) substitute—
“(vii)an assessment of the parenting capacity of the child’s parent or guardian, and if a father of a child or woman who is a parent of a child by virtue of section 43 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 does not have parental responsibility for the child and that person’s identity is known, the parenting capacity of that person;”.
S.I. 2007/1357 (W 128); there are no relevant amending instruments.
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