{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016/regulation-42.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1257",
  "legislation_title": "The Childcare Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childcare-act-2016-consequential-amendments-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Children Act 2004",
  "text": "(1) The Children Act 2004 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 18(2) (director of children's services)—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (e) omit the “and”; and\n(b) at the end of paragraph (f) insert—\n“and\n(g) any function conferred on the authority under section 2 of the Childcare Act 2016.”.\n(3) In section 23(3) (sections 20 to 22: interpretation)—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (c) omit the “and”; and\n(b) at the end of paragraph (d) insert—\n“and\n(e) any function conferred on a local authority under section 2 of the Childcare Act 2016.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2004 c. 31. Section 18(2) and 23(3) were amended by section 16 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 to, the Childcare Act 2006, section 194 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22) and S.I. 2010/1158 and section 18(2) by paragraph 264 of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1257/regulation/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:16:36.928738+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."
}