Amendment of the Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005

8.  In regulation 8 (veto by an adopted person)—

(a) for paragraph (1)(a) substitute—

“(a) the subject is either the adopted person or a person with a prescribed relationship to the adopted person; and”;

(b) in paragraph (1)(b) for “that person” substitute “the adopted person”;

(c) omit paragraph (3); and

(d) at the end insert—

“(4) A veto which applies by virtue of a notification given before 31st October 2014 is deemed to apply to any application made by a relative of the adopted person under these Regulations.”.