{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/467",
  "legislation_title": "The Foster Placement (Children) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/foster-placement-children-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Scope of Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations shall apply to any placement of a child—\n(a) by an authority under Article 27(2)(a) of the Order;\n(b) by a voluntary organisation under Article 75(1)(a) of the Order (unless it is acting on behalf of an authority).\n(2) These Regulations shall not apply to any placement of a child—\n(a) to which the Placement of Children with Parents etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 apply;\n(b) if the child is not in the care of an authority, with a parent of his or other person having parental responsibility for him; or\n(c) for adoption pursuant to the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.\n(3) Where a care order is in force, the application of these Regulations is subject to any directions given by a court (whether before, on or after these Regulations come into operation).\n(4) Nothing in these Regulations shall require the temporary removal of a child from a person with whom he is already living before placement under these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 463"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the definition of “care order” in Article 2(2) of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and paragraphs 11, 12 and 30 of Schedule 8 to that Order"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/467/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:12.270445+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."
}