{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-12.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/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Representations",
  "text": "(1) The Representations Procedure (Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 1 (Citation, commencement and interpretation) –\n(a) in the definition of “complainant”, for “qualifying for advice and assistance” substitute “falling within Article 34B, 34D, 35 or 35B(3) of the Order making any representations”;\n(b) in the definition of “representations”, for “37(1)” substitute “35D(1)”.\n(3) After regulation 2 (authority action), there shall be inserted the following new regulation –\n“Local resolution\n2A. (1) Where an authority receives any representation from a person specified in Article 35D(1) of the Order it shall –\n(a) provide the person appointed under regulation 2(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 2(1).”.\n(4) In regulation 3 (preliminaries), in paragraph (1) for the words from “an authority” to “the authority” substitute –\n“(a) a person to whom it applies is dissatisfied with the outcome of the procedure set out in regulation 2A; or\n(b) an authority receives representations from any other complainant, except from a person to whom Article 45(3)(e) of the Order may apply,\nthe authority”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in operation at 1.9.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 451"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/221/regulation/12",
    "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."
}