{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-secure-accommodation-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Maximum period of authorisation for remanded children",
  "text": "(1) The maximum period for which a court may from time to time authorise a child who has been remanded to local authority accommodation under section 91(3) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 to be kept in secure accommodation in Wales (whether the period is the initial period or a further period) is the period of the remand.\n(2) The reference to “local authority” in paragraph (1) includes an English local authority.\n(3) Any authorisation in respect of such a child must not exceed 28 days on any one occasion without further authorisation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) inserted (2.4.2018) by The Children (Secure Accommodation) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/391), regs. 1(4), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 7(3) inserted (6.4.2016) by The Children (Secure Accommodation) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/312), regs. 1(2), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2012 c. 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1988/regulation/7",
    "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."
}