{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/6",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Families Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Care proceedings and care plans: regulations: procedural requirements",
  "text": "(1) In section 104 of the Children Act 1989 (regulations and orders)—\n(a) in subsections (2) and (3A) (regulations within subsection (3B) or (3C) not subject to annulment but to be approved in draft) after “(3B)” insert “ , (3BA) ”, and\n(b) after subsection (3B) insert—\n“(3BA) Regulations fall within this subsection if they are regulations made in the exercise of the power conferred by section 31(3C) or 32(9).”\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16(2) omitted (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 291"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 22.4.2014 by S.I. 2014/889, art. 4(e) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2014/1042, arts. 3, 4, 6-10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/6/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:52.883054+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."
}