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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-16/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/41",
  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/16/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 21(2) of the Child Care Act 1980 (power of local authority to allow child in care to be under charge and control of parent, etc.) there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(2A) For the purposes of subsection (2) above and section 22A below a child shall be regarded as being under the charge and control of a person if he stays with that person for a continuous period of more than 24 hours”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 8 wholly in force at 1.1.1991 see s. 124(3) and S.I 1990/2484, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:54.699974+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."
}