{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-social-work-act-2017-commencement-no-4-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2018/regulation-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Transitional provision relating to the commencement of section 18",
  "text": "(1) The safeguarding partners and relevant agencies for the local authority area must comply with the duty in section 16G(4) of the 2004 Act within 3 months of the publication date.\n(2) The date of compliance referred to in paragraph (1) shall be known for each local authority area as its implementation date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 16E(3) of the 2004 Act which provides that a relevant agency in relation to a local authority area in England means a person who is specified in regulations made under that section, and exercises functions in that area in relation to children."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/497/regulation/6",
    "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."
}