Regulation 2 Transfer of responsibilities under emergency protection orders
Subject to regulation 5 of these Regulations, where–
(a)
an emergency protection order has been made with respect to a child;
(b)
the applicant for the order was not the local authority within whose area the child is ordinarily resident; and
(c)
that local authority are of the opinion that it would be in the child’s best interests for the applicant’s responsibilities under the order to be transferred to them,
that authority shall (subject to their having complied with the requirements imposed by regulation 3(1) of these Regulations) be treated, for the purposes of the Children Act 1989, as though they and not the original applicant had applied for, and been granted, the order.