{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-scotland-act-1984/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-scotland-act-1984/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/56",
  "legislation_title": "Foster Children (Scotland) Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-children-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Foster children.",
  "text": "Subject to section 2, a child is a foster child for the purposes of this Act if\na) he is below the upper limit of the compulsory school age, and\n(b) his care is undertaken . . . by a person who is not a relative or guardian of his.\n. . ..",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 substituted (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20),s. 108(4)(6), Sch. 12 para. 41(a), Sch. 14 para. 1(1); S.I.1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 1 repealed (14.10.1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), s. 108(4)(6)(7), Sch. 12 para. 41(b), Sch. 14 para. 27(4), Sch. 15; S.I. 1991/828, art. 3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/56/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:02.861682+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."
}