{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016/section-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016/section-71.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/19",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-act-2016",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Request for transfer of responsibility for relevant children",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies if—\n(a) a local authority ... (“the first authority”) requests another local authority ... (“the second authority”) to enter into arrangements under section 69, and\n(b) the second authority does not comply with the first authority's request.\n(2) The Secretary of State may direct the second authority to provide the first authority and the Secretary of State with written reasons for its failure to comply with the request.\n(3) In this section “local authority” has the same meaning as in section 69.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 71(1)(a) omitted (7.2.2018) by virtue of The Transfer of Responsibility for Relevant Children (Extension to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/153), regs. 1, 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 69-72 extended to Scotland and Northern Ireland (as well as to England and Wales) by virtue of The Transfer of Responsibility for Relevant Children (Extension to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/153), regs. 1, 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 71 in force at 31.5.2016 by S.I. 2016/603, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/19/section/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:15.186979+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."
}