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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-breaks-for-carers-of-disabled-children-regulations-2010/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111503850",
  "legislation_title": "The Breaks for Carers of Disabled Children Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-breaks-for-carers-of-disabled-children-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989;\n“carer” means a person who provides care for a disabled child and who is—\n(a) the child’s parent, or\n(b) a person who is not the child’s parent but who has parental responsibility for that child; and\n“disabled” has the meaning given in section 17(11) of the 1989 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "That is, that a child is disabled “if he is blind, deaf or dumb or suffers from mental disorder of any kind or is substantially and permanently handicapped by illness, injury or congenital deformity or such other disability as may be prescribed”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111503850/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:54:29.487272+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."
}