Services for persons outside the area
7.—(1) Section 4 of the Act applies to a local authority in respect of the following persons who are outside the authority’s area—
(a)an agency adoptive child whom the authority has placed for adoption or who has been adopted after being placed for adoption by the authority;
(b)an adoptive parent of such a child;
(c)a child of such an adoptive parent (whether or not adopted).
(2) But section 4 ceases to apply at the end of the period of three years from the date of the adoption order except in relation to any financial support provided by the local authority where the decision to provide that support was made before the adoption.
(3) Nothing in this regulation prevents a local authority from providing adoption support services to persons outside their area where they consider it appropriate to do so.