{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-england-regulations-2010/regulation-27B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-england-regulations-2010/regulation-27B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/959",
  "legislation_title": "The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/care-planning-placement-and-case-review-england-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/27B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27B",
  "heading": "Exception to the prohibition on placing a child under 16 in other arrangements",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a responsible authority placing an unaccompanied asylum seeking child whose age is uncertain and who claims to be 16 or 17 may place that child in accommodation in accordance with other arrangements under section 22C(6)(d).\n(2) Where that child is later assessed as being under 16, a responsible authority may not leave the child in such accommodation where that accommodation is not specified in regulation 27A for longer than 10 working days beginning with the day on which the child’s age has been assessed as being under 16.\n(3) In this regulation, an unaccompanied asylum seeking child has the same meaning as in regulation 5(1)(f)(ii).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 27A, 27B inserted (9.9.2021) by The Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/161), regs. 1, 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/959/regulation/27B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:45:52.933384+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."
}