{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-act-1984/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-act-1984/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/37",
  "legislation_title": "Child Abduction Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in the case of a child who is—\n(a) detained in a place of safety under paragraph 4(2)(a) of Schedule 4, paragraph 7(2)(a) of Schedule 5 or paragraph 24(2)(a) of Schedule 7 to the Sentencing Code;\n(aa) detained in a place of safety under paragraph 9(3) of the Schedule to the Street Offences Act 1959; or\n(b) remanded to local authority accommodation under paragraph 5 of Schedule 4, paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 or paragraph 25 of Schedule 7 to the Sentencing Code;\n(ba) remanded to local authority accommodation under paragraph 10 of the Schedule to the Street Offences Act 1959 ; or\n(bb) remanded to local authority accommodation or youth detention accommodation under section 91 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.\n(2) Where this paragraph applies, section 1 of this Act shall have effect as if—\n(a) the reference in subsection (1) to the appropriate consent were a reference to the leave of any magistrates’ court acting for the area in which the place of safety , local authority accommodation or youth detention accommodation is; and\n(b) subsections (3) to (6) were omitted.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2(1)(a)(b) substituted (14.10.1991)by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(4), Sch. 12 para. 40(3) (with Sch. 14 para. 1(1)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(1)(a) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 75(a) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(1)(aa) inserted (1.4.2010) by Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26), Sch. 7 para. 20(a); S.I. 2010/507, art. 5(v)(x); S.I. 2010/507, art. 5(v)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(1)(b) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 75(b) (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2(2)(bb) and word inserted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), Sch. 12 para. 20(b); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(j);"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 2(2)(a) inserted (3.12.2012) by Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 12 para. 20(c); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(j) (with art. 7(2)(3)); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(j) (with art. 7(2)(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2026/20",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
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      "affecting_title": "Crime and Policing Act 2026"
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/37/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:06.977456+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."
}