{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-act-1984/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-act-1984/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/37",
  "legislation_title": "Child Abduction Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-abduction-act-1984",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Construction of references to taking, sending and detaining.",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Part of this Act—\n(a) a person shall be regarded as taking a child if he causes or induces the child to accompany him or any other person or causes the child to be taken;\n(b) a person shall be regarded as sending a child if he causes the child to be sent; . . .\n(c) a person shall be regarded as detaining a child if he causes the child to be detained or induces the child to remain with him or any other person. and\n(d) references to a child’s parents and to a child whose parents were (or were not) married to, or civil partners of, each other at the time of his birth shall be construed in accordance with section 1 of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (which extends their meaning).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 3(b) repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(7), Sch.15 (with Sch. 14 paras. 1(1), 27(4)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 3(d) and the word “and” immediately preceding it added (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(4), Sch. 12 para.39 (with Sch. 14 para. 14(1)); S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 3(d) inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 9(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/37/section/3",
    "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."
}