{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2012/182",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Homes (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 2(1) of the Principal Regulations, within the definition of “placing authority”, for (a) and (b) there shall be substituted—\n“(a) in the case of a child where the arrangements for providing the accommodation are made by an HSC trust or a body exercising equivalent functions outside Northern Ireland, that HSC trust or body;\n(b) in the case of a child where the arrangements for providing the accommodation are not made by an HSC trust or a body exercising equivalent functions outside Northern Ireland—\n(i) if the arrangements are made by a voluntary organisation, that voluntary organisation;\n(ii) in any other case, the child’s parent;”\n(2) In regulation 33(2) of the Principal Regulations, the words “children accommodated in the home and their parents or” shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 1(3) of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c.1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/182/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:16:01.926243+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."
}