{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/19",
  "legislation_title": "Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/corporate-manslaughter-and-corporate-homicide-act-2007",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Child-protection and probation functions",
  "text": "(1) A duty of care to which this section applies is not a “relevant duty of care” unless it falls within section 2(1)(a), (b) or (d).\n(2) This section applies to any duty of care that a local authority or other public authority owes in respect of the exercise by it of functions conferred by or under—\n(a) Parts 4 and 5 of the Children Act 1989 (c. 41),\n(b) Part 2 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36), or\n(ba) the Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011,\n(c) Parts 5 and 6 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)).\n(3) This section also applies to any duty of care that a local probation board , a provider of probation services or other public authority owes in respect of the exercise by it of functions conferred by or under—\n(a) Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43),\n(aa) section 13 of the Offender Management Act 2007 (c. 21),\n(b) section 27 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 49), or\n(c) Article 4 of the Probation Board (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (S.I. 1982/713 (N.I. 10)).\n(4) This section also applies to any duty of care that a provider of probation services owes in respect of the carrying out by it of activities in pursuance of arrangements under section 3 of the Offender Management Act 2007.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7(2)(ba) inserted (24.6.2013) by The Children’s Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1465), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(3) inserted (1.4.2008) by The Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/912), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 25(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 7(3)(aa) inserted (1.4.2008) by The Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/912), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 25(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 7(4) inserted (1.4.2008) by The Offender Management Act 2007 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/912), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 25(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in force at 6.4.2008 by S.I. 2008/401, art. 2 (with art. 2(3)(c))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:38.238479+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."
}