Amendment of the Adoption Support Agencies (England) and Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 20052.
In regulation 4 (exceptions) of the Adoption Support Agencies (England) and Adoption Agencies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 20052, insert after paragraph (3)—
“(4)
An undertaking is not an adoption support agency3 if the undertaking is carried on by an individual who only provides adoption support services (otherwise than in a partnership with others) under a contract for services with either—(a)
an agency4 in respect of which a person is registered under Part 2 of the 2000 Act as the person carrying on the agency, or(b)
an adoption agency5.”.