{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“placement” means the provision of accommodation and maintenance by a local authority for a child they are looking after by any of the means specified in section 23(2)(a) to (d) or (f) of the Act;\n“responsible authority”—\n(a) in relation to an eligible child, means the local authority looking after him; and\n(b) in relation to a relevant child or a former relevant child, has the meaning given to it by section 23A(4) of the Act.\n(2) In these Regulations, a reference—\n(a) to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in, or Schedule to, these Regulations bearing that number;\n(b) in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph, is to the paragraph in that regulation or Schedule bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See paragraph 19B of Schedule 2 to the Act for the meaning of “eligible child”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 23A of the Act for the meaning of “relevant child”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 23C of the Act for the meaning of “former relevant child”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2874/regulation/2",
    "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."
}