{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-act-1982-repealed-14101991/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-act-1982-repealed-14101991/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/20",
  "legislation_title": "Children’s Homes Act 1982 (repealed 14.10.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-act-1982-repealed-14101991",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Children in care not to be accommodated in unregistered children’s homes.",
  "text": "(1) A local authority shall not place a child in their care in a children’s home, or allow such a child to remain in a children’s home, unless it is a home for the time being registered under this Act (in this Act referred to as a “registered home”).\n(2) Any person who carries on a children’s home which is not a registered home but in which are accommodated one or more children in the care of a local authority shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/20/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:15.867691+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."
}