The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Wales) Regulations 2005

PART 1 INTRODUCTORY

Title, commencement and application

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Wales) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 30 December 2005.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 2002 Act” (“Deddf 2002”) means the Adoption and Children Act 2002;

“the applicant” (“y ceisydd”) means an adopted person or a relative of an adopted person who makes an application under regulation 5;

“the appropriate adoption agency” (“yr asiantaeth fabwysiadu briodol”) has the same meaning as in section 65(1) of the 2002 Act;

“identifying information” (“gwybodaeth adnabod”) has the meaning given in regulation 7;

“intermediary service” (“gwasanaeth cyfryngol”) and “intermediary agency” (“asiantaeth gyfryngol”) have the meanings given in regulation 4;

“registered adoption support agency” (“asiantaeth cymorth mabwysiadu cofrestredig”) means an adoption support agency in respect of which a person is registered under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000(1);

“relative” (“perthynas”) in relation to an adopted person has the same meaning as in section 98 of the 2002 Act;

“subject” (“gwrthrych”) in relation to an application under these Regulations means a person with whom the applicant seeks contact.

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2000 c. 14.