{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-child-protection-measures-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/emergency-child-protection-measures-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Children (Scotland) Act 1995;\n“applicant” means the person or the local authority who applied to a justice of the peace for an authorisation under subsection (1) or, as the case may be, subsection (2), of section 61 of the Act;\n“place of safety” has the meaning given to that term in section 93(1) of the Act;\n“Principal Reporter” has the meaning given to that term in section 93(1) of the Act; and\n“relevant person” in relation to a child has the meaning given to that term in section 93(2)(b) of the Act.",
  "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/2",
    "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."
}