{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-placement-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/221",
  "legislation_title": "The Adult Placement Agencies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-placement-agencies-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1997 Act” means the Police Act 1997;\n“adult placement agency” means a voluntary organisation or undertaking carried on by an HSS Trust or Board or other person, the activities of which consist of or include:\n(a)arranging for placing a person in need, with an adult placement carer for the provision of care and support (which may include accommodation);\n(b)recruiting and training adult placement carers;\n(c)supporting and monitoring placements,\nbut does not include arrangements made by a person solely for the provision of care and support for his relative;\n“adult placement carer” means a person who enters into an agreement with an adult placement agency to provide care or support for persons in need, which may include accommodation in the carers home;\n“agency” means an adult placement agency carried on by a registered provider;\n“agency premises” means premises where the management of the agency is carried on;\n“approval panel” means the panel appointed by an adult placement agency for the purpose of approving applications to the agency from prospective carers;\n“bankruptcy restrictions order” means an order made under Schedule 2A to the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 or Schedule 4A to the Insolvency Act 1986;\n“Board” means a Health and Social Services Board;\n“carer agreement” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 16;\n“complaints procedure” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 22;\n“debt relief order” means an order made by the Official Receiver under Part 7A of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, or Part 7A of the Insolvency Act 1986;\n“debt relief restrictions order” means an order made under Schedule 2ZB to the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, or Schedule 4ZB to the Insolvency Act 1986;\n“home”, where a person has more than one home, means the home where the person ordinarily resides;\n“the Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“organisation” means a body corporate or any unincorporated association other than a partnership;\n“placement” means an arrangement whereby an adult is provided with care or support by an adult placement carer;\n“placement agreement” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 12;\n“placing authority” means a Health and Social Services Trust or Health and Social Services Board or other person with responsibility for commissioning personal social services for service users;\n“registered manager” means a person who is registered under Part III of the Order as the manager of the agency;\n“registered person” means any person who is the registered provider or the registered manager in respect of the agency;\n“registered provider” means a person who is registered under Part III of the Order as the person carrying on the agency, and references to carrying on an agency shall be construed accordingly;\n“relative”, in relation to a service user means—\n(a)the service user’s spouse or civil partner;\n(b)any parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece of the service user, or of his spouse, or civil partner;\n(c)the spouse or civil partner of any relative within sub-paragraph (b) of this definition;\nand for the purpose of determining any such relationship a service user’s step child shall be treated as his child, and references to “spouse” include a former spouse and a person who is living with the service user as husband or wife and references to “civil partner” include a former civil partner and a person who is living with the service user as if they were civil partners;\n“representative” means, in relation to a service user, a person, other than the registered person or a person employed by the agency, who with the service user’s express or implied consent, takes an interest in the service user’s health and welfare;\n“responsible individual” has the meaning given to it in regulation 7(2)(c)(i) of these Regulations;\n“service user” in relation to an agency, means an adult who may be or is placed by the agency;\n“service user’s plan” means the plan prepared in accordance with regulation 19;\n“social worker” shall be construed in accordance with section 2 of the Health and Personal Social Services Act (Northern Ireland) 2001;\n“staff” in relation to an agency, means persons, other than adult placement carers, who work for the purposes of the agency;\n“statement of purpose” means the written statement compiled in accordance with regulation 3;\n“vulnerable adult” has the same meaning as in the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults (Northern Ireland) Order 2003;\n“work” includes work of any kind, whether paid or unpaid, and whether under a contract or apprenticeship, under a contract for services, or otherwise than under a contract.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (21.4.2015) by The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/159), art. 1, Sch. para. 40(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (7.3.2016) by The Debt Relief Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/108), art. 1, Sch. para. 47(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 30.4.2007, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 50"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2001 c. 3 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2003 No. 417 (N.I. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/221/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:04.633325+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."
}