{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-and-adoption-agencies-amendment-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-and-adoption-agencies-amendment-england-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2992",
  "legislation_title": "The Foster Placement (Children) and Adoption Agencies Amendment (England) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-and-adoption-agencies-amendment-england-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 3 of the Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991 (approval of foster parents) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (4A)—\n(a) for “A person” substitute “Subject to paragraph (4B) a person”;\n(b) for the words “over the age of 18” substitute “aged 18 or over”.\n(c) in sub-paragraph (a) after the words “specified offence” insert the words “committed at the age of 18 or over”.\n(3) After paragraph (4A) insert the following paragraph—\n“(4B) A local authority or a voluntary organisation may regard a person to whom paragraph (4A) would, apart from this paragraph, apply, as suitable to act (or to continue to act) as a foster parent in relation to a particular named child or children if it is satisfied that the welfare of that child or children requires it, and either—\n(a) the person or a member of his household is a relative of the child; or\n(b) the person is already acting as a foster parent for the child.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/910, as amended by S.I. 1995/2015, S.I. 1997/2308 and S.I. 1999/2768."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“Relative” is defined in section 105(1) of the Children Act 1989."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/57",
      "affecting_title": "The Fostering Services Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2992/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:29:23.262839+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."
}