{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/36",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Duty of persons with parental responsibilities to notify change of address to local authority looking after child.",
  "text": "(1) Where a child is being looked after by a local authority, each natural person who has parental responsibilities in relation to the child shall, without unreasonable delay, inform that authority whenever the person changes his address.\n(2) A person who knowingly fails to comply with the requirement imposed by subsection (1) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of level 1 on the standard scale; but in any proceedings under this section it shall be a defence that—\n(a) the change was to the same address as that to which another person who at that time had parental responsibilities in relation to the child was changing; and\n(b) the accused had reasonable cause to believe that the other person had informed the authority of the change of address of them both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/36/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:50.972491+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."
}