Regulation 78 Persons who are not persons with care
The following categories of person are not persons with care for the purposes of the 1991 Act—
a local authority;
a person with whom a child who is looked after by a local authority is placed by that authority under the provisions of the Children Act 1989, except where that person is a parent of such a child and the local authority allow the child to live with that parent under section 22C(2) or 23(5) of that Actf1;
in Scotland, a family or relative with whom a child is placed by a local authority under the provisions of section 26 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995f2.
In paragraph (1)—
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“a child who is looked after by a local authority” has the same meaning as in section 22 of the Children Act 1989 or section 17(6) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 as the case may be;
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“family” means a family other than a family defined in section 93(1) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995.
Annotations
Footnotes
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1989 c. 41. Section 22C(2) was inserted prospectively by the Children Act 2008 (c. 23), section 8; when it is in force it will replace section 23(5).
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