{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/910",
  "legislation_title": "The Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Scope of the Regulations",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations apply (subject to paragraph (2)) to any placementof a child—\n(a) by a local authority under section 23(2)(a) of the Act;\n(b) by a voluntary organisation under section 59(1)(a) of the Act(unless they are acting on behalf of a local authority).\n(2) These Regulations do not apply to any placement of achild—\n(a) to which the Placement of Children with Parents etc. Regulations1991 apply;\n(b) if the child is not in the care of a local authority, with a parentof his or other person having parental responsibility for him;\n(c) for adoption pursuant to the Adoption Act 1976.\n(3) Where a care order is in force the application of these Regulationsis subject to any directions given by a court (whether before, on orafter these Regulations come into force).\n(4) Nothing in these Regulations requires the temporary removal of achild from a person with whom he is already living before placementunder these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/893."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1976 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/910/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:06.648349+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."
}