{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-support-local-authority-strategies-and-annual-reports-regulations-2021/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-support-local-authority-strategies-and-annual-reports-regulations-2021/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/990",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Abuse Support (Local Authority Strategies and Annual Reports) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-support-local-authority-strategies-and-annual-reports-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Obligations to have regard to certain matters when preparing a section 57 strategy",
  "text": "(1) A relevant local authority must, when preparing a section 57 strategy, have regard to—\n(a) its functions in respect of the following—\n(i) violence against women and girls;\n(ii) modern slavery;\n(iii) community safety;\n(iv) victims of crime;\n(v) housing and homelessness reduction;\n(vi) safeguarding;\n(vii) supporting families; and\n(b) such other matters as it considers relevant.\n(2) A relevant local authority must, when preparing a section 57 strategy, also have regard to the extent to which the need for accommodation-based support identified in any previous strategy may have changed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As defined in section 57(2) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/990/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:09:27.612059+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."
}