{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-care-act-1980-repealed-14101991/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-care-act-1980-repealed-14101991/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/5",
  "legislation_title": "Child Care Act 1980 (repealed 14.10.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-care-act-1980-repealed-14101991",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Definition of voluntary home.",
  "text": "In this Act, except where otherwise indicated, the expression “voluntary home” means any home or other institution for the boarding, care and maintenance of poor children, being either—\n(a) a home or other institution supported wholly or partly by voluntary contributions, or\n(b) a home or other institution supported wholly or partly by endowments, not being a school within the meaning of the Education Act 1944,\nbut does not in either case include a mental nursing home within the meaning of the Nursing Homes Act 1975 or a residential home for mentally disordered persons within the meaning of the Residential Homes Act 1980.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/5/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:53.335208+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."
}