{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-35.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/479",
  "legislation_title": "The Children’s Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-homes-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/35",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Circumstances necessitating visits by authorities",
  "text": "Every authority shall arrange for one of its officers to visit every child who is accommodated within its area in a voluntary home or in a registered children’s home in any of the following circumstances and within the periods specified—\n(a) where the authority is informed that a child not in the care of, nor being looked after by, any authority has been placed in such accommodation, within 7 days of being so informed;\n(b) where the voluntary organisation or the person carrying on a registered children’s home providing such accommodation makes representations to the authority that there are circumstances relating to the child which require a visit, within 14 days of receipt of those representations; or\n(c) when the authority is informed that the welfare of a child may not be being safeguarded or promoted, within 24 hours of being so informed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/479/regulation/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:03.530010+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."
}