{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-2008/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-2008/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/23",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Young Persons Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-young-persons-act-2008",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Duration of residence orders",
  "text": "(1) In section 9(6) of the 1989 Act (restriction on length of orders under section 8 of that Act) for the words from the beginning to “which” substitute “ No court shall make a specific issue order, contact order or prohibited steps order ”.\n(2) In section 12 of that Act (residence orders and parental responsibility) omit subsections (5) and (6).\n(3) In section 91(10) of that Act (duration of section 8 orders)—\n(a) after “section 8 order” insert “ other than a residence order ”; and\n(b) omit “or 12(5)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 in force at 1.9.2009 for W. by S.I. 2009/1921, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 37 in force at 1.9.2009 for E. by S.I. 2009/2273, art. 2(2)(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/23/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:46.193883+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."
}