{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1965/554",
  "legislation_title": "The London Authorities (Children) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any functions, powers, rights or liabilities vested in or attaching to a council with respect to a person transferred to the care of a successor authority by or under this Order and subsisting immediately before the transfer shall thereafter vest in or attach to the successor authority; and any order of a court committing such a person to such a council shall after the transfer have effect with the substitution for the name of the council of the name of the successor authority.\n(2) Where functions, powers, rights or liabilities vested in or attaching to a council with respect to a person to whom an approved school order, a supervision order or an order made under the proviso to section 4(3) of the Children Act 1948 relates, are transferred by or under this Order to a successor authority, the order shall thereafter have effect with the substitution for the name of the council of the name of the successor authority.\n(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article, where functions, powers, rights or liabilities under a resolution passed under section 2 of the Children Act 1948 are transferred by or under this Order to a successor authority, the resolution shall thereafter be deemed to have been passed by the successor authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/554/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:58:46.824089+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."
}