{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-wales-regulations-2003/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2003/237",
  "legislation_title": "The Fostering Services (Wales) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fostering-services-wales-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Placements outside Wales",
  "text": "(1) A voluntary organisation must not place a child outside the British Islands.\n(2) Where a responsible authority makes arrangements to place a child outside Wales it must ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, that the requirements which would have applied under these Regulations had the child been placed in Wales, are complied with.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "British Islands are defined in the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) as meaning the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2016/216",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) and Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2016"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2003/237/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:12:05.144467+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."
}