{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1988",
  "legislation_title": "The Children (Secure Accommodation) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Maximum periods of authorisation by the court",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation and regulation 7, where a child has been made the subject of an application under section 119 of the Act, the maximum initial period for which a court may authorise the child to be kept in secure accommodation in Wales is three months.\n(2) Where a child is subject to an application to extend the period in secure accommodation in Wales under section 119 of the Act the maximum further period which a court may authorise at any one time is 6 months.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) inserted (2.4.2018) by The Children (Secure Accommodation) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(4), 2(5)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) inserted (2.4.2018) by The Children (Secure Accommodation) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(4), 2(5)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(2) inserted (2.4.2018) by The Children (Secure Accommodation) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(4), 2(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1988/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:32:10.710666+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."
}