{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000-approved-premises-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000-approved-premises-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/850",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (Approved Premises) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000-approved-premises-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“admissions policy”, in relation to approved premises, means a policy which specifies the categories of person considered suitable to reside at the premises;\n“approved premises” means premises approved under section 9 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000;\n“community sentence” has the meaning given to it by section 33 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000;\n“management committee” has the meaning given to it by regulation 5;\n“managing body” means—\n(a) in relation to approved premises provided by a local probation board, that board, and\n(b) in relation to any other approved premises, the management committee established for those premises under regulation 5;\n“relevant local board”, in relation to approved premises, means the local probation board in whose area the approved premises are situated;\n“resident”, in relation to approved premises, means a person who lives in the approved premises otherwise than in the course of his employment, and “reside” shall be construed accordingly.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation so numbered in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/850/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:57:42.151704+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."
}