{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accommodation-of-children-charge-and-controlregulations-1988/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2183",
  "legislation_title": "The Accommodation of Children (Charge and Control)Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accommodation-of-children-charge-and-controlregulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Any child who is not a child to whom regulation 2(2) applies and who is under the charge and control of a parent, guardian, relative or friend, pursuant to section 21(2) of the Act immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations shall be deemed to have been placed under these Regulations on the day they come into force.\n(2) A local authority who are deemed by paragraph (1) to have placed a child under these Regulations shall, subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), comply with these Regulations, so far as they apply to placements, as soon as practicable after they come into force and in any event within 12 months of the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(3) A local authority shall carry out a review in accordance with the provisions of regulation 8(1)(c) (review) in respect of each child who is deemed to be placed pursuant to paragraph (1), so however that the review of the deemed placement shall be carried out within six months of the date of such placement and thereafter at intervals of not more than six months, and for this purpose the authority shall cause each such child to be visited, which such visits shall be deemed to be visits for the purposes of regulation 8(4).\n(4) The local authority’s obligations under regulation 4 (duties of local authorities in relation to placements) and regulation 12 (termination of placements) shall apply to each child who is deemed to be placed pursuant to paragraph (1) from the date these Regulations come into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2183/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:52:49.788471+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}