The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013

The Adoptions with a Foreign Element Regulations 2005

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

(2) In regulation 5(1)(c) (functions imposed on local authority)—

(a) for “Primary Care Trust” substitute “clinical commissioning group”, and

(b) after “has his home,” insert “and to the National Health Service Commissioning Board if the prospective adopter’s home is in England,”.

(3) In regulation 22(b) (applicable requirements in respect of an adoption agency before the child enters the UK)—

(a) for “Primary Care Trust” substitute “clinical commissioning group”, and

(b) after “has his home,” insert “and to the National Health Service Commissioning Board if the prospective adopter’s home is in England,”.

(1)

S.I. 2005/392, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.