{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2874",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Leaving Care) (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Representations",
  "text": "(1) The Representations Procedure (Children) Regulations 1991 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of “complainant”, for “qualifying for advice and assistance” substitute “falling within section 23A, 23C, 24, or 24B(3) of the Act making any representations”;\n(b) in the definition of “representations”, for “24(14)” substitute “24D(1)”.\n(3) After regulation 3 (local authority action), there shall be inserted the following new regulation—\n“Local resolution\n3A (1) Where a local authority receive any representation from a person specified in section 24D(1) they shall—\n(a) provide the person appointed under regulation 3(1) with a written summary of the representation;\n(b) endeavour by informal means to reach a settlement to the satisfaction of the complainant within 14 days; and\n(c) if at the end of 14 days no resolution has been achieved, notify the person appointed under regulation 3(1).”.\n(4) In regulation 4 (preliminaries), in paragraph (1) for the words from “a local authority” to “they” substitute—\n“(a) a person to whom it applies is dissatisfied with the outcome of the procedure set out in regulation 3A; or\n(b) a local authority receive representations from any other complainant, except from a person to whom section 26(3)(e) may apply,\nthe local authority”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991 No. 894 as amended by S.I. 1991 No. 2033 and S.I. 1993 No. 3069."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/1738",
      "affecting_title": "The Children Act 1989 Representations Procedure (England) Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2874/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:30:19.571391+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."
}