# Children’s Homes Act 1982 (repealed 14.10.1991), Section 2: Children in care not to be accommodated in unregistered children’s homes.

Extent: E+W

(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”).
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/20/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-act-1982-repealed-14101991/section-2
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