34.—(1) The Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 5A (tenure of office of members) after paragraph (1A) insert—
“(1B) Where an adoption agency extended the term of office of a member of its adoption panel in accordance with paragraph (1A) and that term of office is due to expire on or before 29th December 2005, the agency may extend the term of office of that member up to (and including) 29th December 2005.”.
(3) In regulation 16 (transfer of case records)—
(a)at the beginning of paragraph (2) insert “Subject to paragraph (2A),”; and
(b)after paragraph (2) insert—
“(2A) An appropriate voluntary organisation which intends to cease to act as such and to seek to be registered as a person who carries on an adoption support agency or is treated as having applied for and been granted registration in respect of an adoption support agency may, with the approval of the registration authority, retain its case records in relation to persons adopted before 30th December 2005.”.
35. After regulation 4 of the Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005(2) (meaning of “intermediary service” and “intermediary agency”) insert—
4A. Where, by virtue of regulation 16(2A) of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983(3), an adoption support agency keeps the information in relation to the adoption of a person adopted before 30th December 2005, any reference in these Regulations to the appropriate adoption agency in relation to that person shall be taken to be a reference to that adoption support agency.”.
S.I. 1983/1964; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/649 and 2003/2555.
Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1997/649, 1997/2308, 2002/3220, 2003/367 and 2005/774. Regulation 16(2A) is inserted by regulation 35 of these Regulations.