{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-social-work-act-2017-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/497",
  "legislation_title": "The Children and Social Work Act 2017 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-social-work-act-2017-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transitional provision relating to the commencement of section 18",
  "text": "(1) The safeguarding partners in each local authority area in England must first comply with the duty in section 16G(2) of the 2004 Act no later than 30th June 2019.\n(2) The date on which the safeguarding partners in each local authority area in England first comply with the duty in section 16G(2) of the 2004 Act shall be known for each local authority area as its publication date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 16E(3) of the Children Act 2004 (“2004 Act”) which provides that the safeguarding partners in relation to a local authority area in England are the local authority, a clinical commissioning group for an area any part of which falls within the local authority area and the chief officer of police for a police area any part of which falls within the local authority area."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/497/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:58:49.503053+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."
}