{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-leavers-england-regulations-2010/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-leavers-england-regulations-2010/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2571",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Leavers (England) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-leavers-england-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“personal adviser” means the person appointed—\n(i) under paragraph 19C of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act for an eligible child,\n(ii) under section 23B(2) for a relevant child, or\n(iii) under section 23CA(2) for a former relevant child;\n“placement” has the meaning given in section 22C(6);\n“relevant child” has the meaning given in section 23A(2) and regulation 3; and\n“responsible authority” means the local authority that last looked after the child.\n(2) In these Regulations, save as otherwise appears, any reference to a numbered section is a reference to that section in the 1989 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.4.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 19C of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 1 of the 2000 Act. For the definition of “eligible child” see paragraph 19B(2) of Schedule 2 to the 1989 Act and regulation 40 of the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/959)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 23CA was inserted by section 22(2) of the 2008 Act. “Former relevant child” has the meaning given in section 23C(1) of the 1989 Act and includes a former relevant child who falls within section 23CA(1) of the 1989 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 22C was inserted by section 8(1) of the 2008 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "“Local authority” is defined in section 105(1) of the 1989 Act as, in relation to England, “the council of a county, a metropolitan district, a London Borough or the Common Council of the City of London”. Further, by virtue of the Isles of Scilly (Children Act 1989) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1116) any reference to a “local authority” in the 1989 Act is to be construed, in relation to the Isles of Scilly, as a reference to the Council of the Isles of Scilly."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2571/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:33.953169+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."
}