{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-act-1980-repealed-14101991/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-act-1980-repealed-14101991/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/6",
  "legislation_title": "Foster Children Act 1980 (repealed 14.10.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-act-1980-repealed-14101991",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“child” means a person under the age of 18;\n“compulsory school age” has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1944;\n.\n“local authority” means the council of a non-metropolitan county, metropolitan district or London borough, or the Common Council of the City of London;\n“local authority in Scotland” means a regional or islands council;\n“place of safety” means a community home provided by a local authority, a controlled community home, a police station, or any hospital, surgery or other suitable place whose occupier is willing temporarily to receive a child;\n“relative”, in relation to a child, means a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt (whether of the full blood or half-blood or by affinity) and includes, where the child is illegitimate, the father of the child and any person who would be a relative within the meaning of this definition if the child were the legitimate child of his mother and father;\n“voluntary organisation” means a body the activities of which are carried on otherwise than for profit.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/6/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:52.350054+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."
}