{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-amendment-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-amendment-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2002/1855",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Leaving Care) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-amendment-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Children (Leaving Care) (Wales) Regulations 2001",
  "text": "The Children (Leaving Care) (Wales) Regulations 2001 are amended as follows—\n(a) in Regulation 3 (Eligible children), paragraph (2)(b) is omitted,\n(b) in Regulation 4 (Relevant children)—\n(i) for paragraph (4) there is substituted—\n“(4) Subject to paragraph (6), any child who has lived with a person falling within section 23(4) of the Act (“a family placement”) for a continuous period of six months or more is not to be a relevant child despite falling within section 23A(2).”;\n(ii) after paragraph (5) there is inserted—\n“(6) Where\n(a) a family placement within the meaning of paragraph (4) breaks down and the child ceases to live with the person concerned, and\n(b) six months have elapsed since that family placement began,\nthe child is to be treated as a relevant child.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/2189."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/1855/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:13:31.245063+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."
}