{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1506",
  "legislation_title": "Children’s Homes Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Storage of medicinal products",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the responsible authority shall ensure that any medicinal product which is kept in a children’s home shall be stored in a secure place so as to prevent any child accommodated there having access to it otherwise than under the supervision of a member of the staff of the home.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the person in charge of a children’s home shall ensure that no medicinal product shall be administered to a child otherwise than by a member of the staff of the children’s home, a registered nurse or registered medical practitioner.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not apply to a medicinal product which—\n(a) is stored by the child for whom it is provided in such a way that others are prevented from using it; and\n(b) may safely be self-administered by that child.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/3069",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Homes, Arrangements for Placement, Reviews and Representations) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1506/regulation/9",
    "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."
}