{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/221",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Leaving Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Children (Leaving Care) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2005.\n(2) In these Regulations –\n“the Order” means the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995;\n“placement” means the provision of accommodation and maintenance by an authority for a child it is looking after by any of the means specified in Article 27(2)(a) to (d) or (f) of the Order;\n“primary medical services” has the same meaning as in Article 2 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972;\n“responsible authority” –\n(a) in relation to an eligible child, means the 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 Article 34B(4) of the Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in operation at 1.9.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1265 (N.I. 14) – definition inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2004/311 (N.I. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See Article 34A of the Order for the meaning of “eligible child”"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See Article 34B of the Order for the meaning of “relevant child”"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See Article 34D of the Order for the meaning of “former relevant child”"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/221/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:52:29.466382+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."
}