{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-child-protection-measures-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-child-protection-measures-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3258",
  "legislation_title": "The Emergency Child Protection Measures (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-child-protection-measures-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Duties where child subject to emergency protection measures",
  "text": "In regulations 13 to 16 below–\n“emergency protection measures” in relation to a child means–\n(a) further to the grant of an authorisation by a justice of the peace under subsection (1) or (2) of section 61 of the Act, the prevention of the removal of the child by any person from a place where he is then being accommodated or, as the case may be, the removal of the child to a place of safety and keeping him there until the expiry of the authorisation; and\n(b) the removal of a child to a place of safety by a constable under section 61(5) of the Act, and keeping him there;\n“specified person” means–\n(a) where an authorisation has been granted by a justice of the peace under subsection (1) or (2) of section 61 of the Act, the applicant for such authorisation; and\n(b) where a child has been removed to a place of safety by a constable under section 61(5) of the Act, a constable keeping him in such a place.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3258/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:34.523753+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."
}