{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/31",
  "legislation_title": "Children Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Children’s Commissioner may appoint any staff he considers necessary for assisting him in the exercise of his functions ....\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) ... Any member of the Children’s Commissioner’s staff may, so far as authorised by him, exercise any of his functions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 5(1) omitted (1.4.2014) by virtue of Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(5), Sch. 5 para. 9(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 5(2) omitted (1.4.2014) by virtue of Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(5), Sch. 5 para. 9(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 5(3) omitted (1.4.2014) by virtue of Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(5), Sch. 5 para. 9(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/47",
      "affecting_title": "Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/31/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:56.383931+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."
}