{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-7/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989/schedule-7/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/41",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-1989",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(A1) This paragraph applies to a person fostering in England.\n(1) A person shall cease to be treated , for the purposes of this Act and the Care Standards Act 2000 as fostering and shall be treated , for the purposes of this Act and the Care Standards Act 2000 as carrying on a children’s home if—\n(a) he exceeds the usual fostering limit; or\n(b) where he is exempted under paragraph 4,—\n(i) he fosters any child not named in the exemption; and\n(ii) in so doing, he exceeds the usual fostering limit.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply if the children concerned are all siblings in respect of each other.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 5(A1) inserted (2.4.2018) by The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/195), regs. 2(1), 13(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 5(1) inserted (1.4.2002) by 2000 c. 14, s. 116, Sch. 4 para. 14(26); S.I. 2001/4150, art. 3(3)(a) (subject to transitional provision in art. 4 of the commencing S.I. and to the amendment of art. 3 by S.I. 2002/1493, art. 6); S.I. 2002/920, art. 3(3)(d) (with art. 3(4)-(10) and transitional provisions in Schs. 1-3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 5 wholly in force at 14.10.1991 see s. 108(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/41/schedule/7/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T07:28:21.051680+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."
}