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Regulation 3 Eligible children

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(1)

For the purposes of paragraph 19B(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Act, the prescribed period is 13 weeks and the prescribed age is 14.

(2)

A child falling within paragraph (3) is not an eligible child despite falling within paragraph 19B(2) of Schedule 2 to the Act.

(3)

A child falls within this paragraph if he has been looked after by a local authority in circumstances where—

(a)

the local authority has arranged to place him in a pre-planned series of short-term placements, none of which individually exceeds four weeks (even though they may amount in all to the prescribed period); and

(b)

at the end of each such placement the child returns to the care of his parent, or a person who is not a parent but who has parental responsibility for him.