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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-regulations-1991/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1505",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Secure Accommodation) Regulations 1991",
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  "path": "regulation/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Duty to give information of placement in community homes",
  "text": "Where a child is placed in secure accommodation in a community home which is managed by an authority other than that which are looking after him the local authority which manage that accommodation shall inform the authority which are looking after him that he has been placed there, within 12 hours of his being placed there, with a view to obtaining their authority to continue to keep him there if necessary.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Secure Accommodation) AmendmentRegulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Secure Accommodation) AmendmentRegulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2016/211",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}