This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in SI 2004/190 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2004 No.1081
SOCIAL CARE, ENGLAND
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS, ENGLAND
The Independent Review of Determinations (Adoption) (Amendment) Regulations 2004
Made
7th April 2004
Laid before Parliament
7th April 2004
Coming into force
30th April 2004
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 9(2) and (3) and 9A(1) and (3) of the Adoption Act 1976( 1 ) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations—
Citation, commencement and application
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Independent Review of Determinations (Adoption) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 30th April 2004.
(2) These Regulations apply to England only.
Amendment of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983
2. In regulation 11A(5A) of the Adoption Agencies Regulations 1983( 2 ) (adoption agency decisions and notifications – prospective adopters) for sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) substitute—
“ (a) all of the documents and information which were passed to the adoption panel in accordance with regulation 8(2)(i);
(b) any relevant information in relation to the prospective adopter which was obtained by the agency after the date on which the documents and information referred to in sub-paragraph (a) were passed to the adoption panel; and
(c) the documents referred to in paragraph (4)(a) and (b). ” .
Amendment of the Independent Review of Determinations (Adoption) Regulations 2004
3. In regulation 12 of the Independent Review of Determinations (Adoption) Regulations 2004( 3 ) (order for payment of costs), for “the adoption panel” substitute “the panel”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Education and Skills
Margaret Hodge
Minister of State
Department for Education and Skills
7th April 2004
1976 c. 36 . Section 9(2) of the Adoption Act 1976 (“the Act”) was amended by section 116 of, and paragraph 5(6)(a) of Schedule 4 to, the Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14) . Section 9A of the Act was inserted by section 139(2) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38) (“the 2002 Act”). These powers are exercisable by the appropriate Minister, who is defined in section 9(5) of the Act in relation to England as the Secretary of State. Section 9(5) of the Act was inserted by section 139(2) of, and paragraph 4(1)(b) of Schedule 4 to, the 2002 Act.
S.I. 2004/190 .