{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-management-functions-in-relation-to-certain-community-homes-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-management-functions-in-relation-to-certain-community-homes-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/586",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out (Management Functions in relation to certain Community Homes) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracting-out-management-functions-in-relation-to-certain-community-homes-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Contracting out of management functions in relation to certain community homes",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this article, the function conferred on a local authority by section 53(3)(a) of the Act of managing a community home may be exercised by, or by the employees of, such person (if any) as may be authorised in that behalf by a local authority.\n(2) Paragraph (1) of this article does not apply to the function of managing a community home, or any part of a community home, which is provided for the purpose of restricting the liberty of children under the age of eighteen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 53 of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41) is prospectively amended by section 22 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/586/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:06.455229+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."
}