{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-learning-needs-wales-regulations-2021/regulation-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-learning-needs-wales-regulations-2021/regulation-40.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2021/401",
  "legislation_title": "The Additional Learning Needs (Wales) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-learning-needs-wales-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/40",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Independent advocacy services under section 69 of the 2018 Act",
  "text": "When a young person for whom a local authority is responsible lacks capacity at the relevant time, that local authority must refer that young person’s representative to an independent advocacy service if the representative requests an independent advocacy service.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 40 in force at 1.9.2021, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2021/401/regulation/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:11:55.981324+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."
}