{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1969/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1969/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/54",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-1969",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Discontinuance of approved schools etc. on establishment of community homes.",
  "text": "(1) If in the case of any approved school, or remand home within the meaning of the Criminal Justice Act 1948 or approved probation hostel . . . (hereafter in this section referred to as an “approved institution”) it appears to the Secretary of State that in consequence of the establishment of community homes for a planning area the institution as such is no longer required, he may by order provide that it shall cease to be an approved institution on a date specified in the order.\n(2) The provisions of Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect in relation to institutions which are, or by virtue of this section have ceased to be, approved institutions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (c. 62, SIF 39:1), Sch. 5 para. 36"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(1) repealed (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 43, ss. 74, 75, Sch. 7 Pt. II para. 41, Sch. 8: S.I. 2001/919, art. 2(f)(ii)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1948 c. 58(39:1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 46 amended by Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Act 1983 (c. 41, SIF 113:3), Sch. 2 para. 17"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/54/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:56.296738+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."
}