{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arrangements-for-placement-of-children-general-regulations-1991/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arrangements-for-placement-of-children-general-regulations-1991/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/890",
  "legislation_title": "Arrangements for Placement of Children (General) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arrangements-for-placement-of-children-general-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Application of Regulations to short-term placements",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a series of short-term placements at thesame place where the following conditions are satisfied—\n(a) all the placements occur within a period which does not exceed oneyear;\n(b) no single placement is for a duration of more than four weeks; and\n(c) the total duration of the placements does not exceed 90 days.\n(2) Any series of short-term placements to which this regulation appliesmay be treated as a single placement for the purposes of theseRegulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2015",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Short-term Placements)(Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/890/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:14.095748+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."
}