{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-562J",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996/section-562J.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/56",
  "legislation_title": "Education Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-act-1996",
  "path": "section/562J",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "562J",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Chapter",
  "text": "(1) In this Chapter—\n“the appropriate national authority” means—\n(a)in relation to England, the Secretary of State;\n(b)in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\n“beginning of the detention”, in relation to a person detained in relevant youth accommodation, means—\n(a)the beginning of the period of detention in such accommodation, or\n(b)where that period is part of a continuous period, comprising periods of detention in relevant youth accommodation and in other accommodation, the beginning of that continuous period;\n“detained person” has the meaning given by section 562A(3);\n“the home authority”—\n(a)in relation to a child or young person who immediately before the beginning of the detention was, or at any time since then has been, a looked after child, means the local authority who are looking after, or who have most recently been looking after, the person;\n(b)in relation to any other child or young person, means the local authority in whose area the person is ordinarily resident;\n“the host authority”, in relation to a child or young person detained in relevant youth accommodation, means the local authority in whose area the child or young person is detained;\n“looked after child” means a person who, for the purposes of the Children Act 1989 or the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 is a child looked after by a local authority; and references to the local authority looking after the person are to be read accordingly;\n“young person” includes a person aged 18.\n(2) For the purposes of the definition of “beginning of the detention” in subsection (1), it is immaterial whether or not a period of detention is pursuant to a single order.\n(3) In determining for the purpose of subsection (1) where a child or young person is ordinarily resident, any period when the person is subject to a detention order is to be disregarded.\n(4) Regulations made by the appropriate national authority may make further provision for determining where a person is ordinarily resident for the purpose of that subsection.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 10 Ch. 5A inserted (1.9.2010 for E. for specified purposes, 1.4.2011 for W. for specified purposes) by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c. 22), ss. 50, 269(3)(4); S.I. 2010/303, art. 6, Sch. 5; S.I. 2011/829, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 562J(1) inserted (1.9.2010 for E., 1.4.2011 for W.) by The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(3), 158 (see S.I. 2010/303, art. 6, Sch. 5 and S.I. 2011/829, art. 2(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 562J(1) power to apply in part (with modifications) conferred (1.4.2015) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 70(7), 139(6); S.I. 2015/375, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 562J(1) power to apply (with modifications) conferred (2.11.2020) by Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 2), ss. 39(2)(a), 100(3); S.I. 2020/1182, reg. 2(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 562J(4) power to apply regulations (with modifications) conferred (2.11.2020) by Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal (Wales) Act 2018 (anaw 2), ss. 39(2)(b), 100(3); S.I. 2020/1182, reg. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/section/562J",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:40.627017+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."
}