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SCHEDULEAmendments to Other Regulations

Suitability of Adopters Regulations 2005

4.—(1) The Suitability of Adopters Regulations 2005(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3 (making reports in respect of the suitability to adopt a child)—

(a)for the words “regulations 25(5)” substitute “regulations 30(2)”;

(b)for the words “and 29(4)” substitute “and 30D(4)”;

(c)in sub-paragraph (a)(i) for the words “regulation 21” substitute “regulation 24(1)”;

(d)in sub-paragraph (b) for the words “regulation 24” substitute “regulation 24(1)(f)”;

(e)in sub-paragraph (c) for the words “regulation 23(1)(a) and (b)” substitute “regulation 25(1)”;

(f)for sub-paragraph (d) substitute—

(d)any information or reports obtained under regulation 26;; and

(g)omit sub-paragraph (f).

(3) In regulation 4(1) (determining the suitability to adopt a child)—

(a)for the words “regulation 27” substitute “regulation 30B”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “regulation 25(5)” substitute “regulation 30(2)”;

(c)in sub-paragraph (b) for the words “regulation 25(3)(a)” substitute “regulation 26(b)”;

(d)in sub-paragraph (c) for the words “regulation 25(3)(b)” substitute “regulation 26(c)”;

(e)in sub-paragraph (d) for the words “regulation 26(1)” substitute “regulation 30A(1)”; and

(f)in sub-paragraph (e) for the words “regulation 26(2)(b)” substitute “regulation 30A(2)(b)”.

(4) In regulation 5 (cases in which a person is unlikely to be suitable to adopt a child)—

(a)for the words “regulation 25(7)” substitute “regulation 30(4)”; and

(b)for the words “regulation 25(2), (3) or (4)” substitute “regulation 26”.