The Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Scotland) Regulations 2009 No. 182

PART 3 ADOPTIONS UNDER THE CONVENTION

CHAPTER 1 PROCEDURE IN SCOTLAND WHERE THE UNITED KINGDOM IS THE RECEIVING STATE

Case records and counselling

14.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies to an adoption agency which–

(a) has determined that the prospective adopters are eligible to adopt;

(b) has satisfied the requirements in regulation 13; and

(c) considers that the prospective adopters' suitability to be adoptive parents should be assessed.

(2) The adoption agency must–

(a) if it has not already done so, set up a case record in respect of the prospective adopters and place on it any information obtained under regulations 15 and 16; and

(b) ensure that such counselling as may be necessary in connection with the proposed adoption is made available to the prospective adopters.

(3) Part VIII of the Adoption Agencies Regulations applies to any case record set up in respect of the prospective adopters as a consequence of this regulation as if that record had been created under that Part.