{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-child-protection-measures-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-child-protection-measures-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-16.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/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Duties where child subject to emergency protection measures",
  "text": "Where a child is subject to emergency protection measures, the specified person in relation to–\n(a) any relevant person in relation to the child; and\n(b) any person with whom the child was living immediately before such measures were taken, shall allow, and\n(c) any other person, may allow;\nsuch contact (if any) with the child as, in the view of the specified person, is both reasonable and in accordance with the welfare of the child.",
  "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/16",
    "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."
}