{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-leaving-care-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Eligible children",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Article 34A(3)(b) of the Order, the prescribed period is 13 weeks and the prescribed age is 14.\n(2) A child falling within paragraph (3) is not an eligible child despite falling within Article 34A of the Order.\n(3) A child falls within this paragraph if he has been looked after by an authority in circumstances where –\n(a) the 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\n(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.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.9.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/221/regulation/2",
    "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."
}