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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/487",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Secure Accommodation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Maximum initial period of authorisation by a court",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 8, the maximum period for which a court may authorise a child to whom Article 44 applies to be kept in secure accommodation is 3 months.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/487/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:57.968750+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."
}