{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1506",
  "legislation_title": "Children’s Homes Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Access by guardians ad litem to records and register",
  "text": "(1) Each voluntary organisation, where they are not acting as an authorised person, and every person carrying on a registered children’s home shall provide a guardian ad litem of a child—\n(a) such access as may be required to—\n(i) records in so far as they relate to the child maintained in accordance with these Regulations; and\n(ii) the information from such records held in whatever form (such as by means of computer).\n(b) such copies of the records as he may require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 42 of the Act as amended by paragraph 18 of Schedule 16 to the Court and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41) provides for guardians ad litem to have right of access to local authority and authorised persons' records. “Authorised person” is defined in section 31 of the Children Act 1989."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1506/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:05.095134+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."
}