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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-exceptions-revocation-and-transitional-provision-wales-order-2026/article-4",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2026/100",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Minding and Day Care Exceptions (Revocation and Transitional Provision) (Wales) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/child-minding-and-day-care-exceptions-revocation-and-transitional-provision-wales-order-2026",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Time-limited provision",
  "text": "(1) A person looking after a child does not act as a child minder where that person looks after a child for—\n(a) a single period of 2 hours or less, or\n(b) periods which total 2 hours or less,\nper day.\n(2) But this exception does not apply—\n(a) where a person looks after a child who is yet to attain the age of 3 unless the child’s parent—\n(i) remains on the premises, and\n(ii) is able to resume care of the child without undue delay at the person’s request, or\n(b) to a person who is registered as a child minder under Part 2 of the Measure but whose registration is suspended under regulation 40(1) of the Child Minding and Day Care (Wales) Regulations 2010.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2574 (W. 214)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/100/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:54.454170+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."
}