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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/310",
  "legislation_title": "The Placement of Children (Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application of Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) these Regulations apply to placements—\n(a) by a local authority of any child;\n(b) by a voluntary organisation of a child who is not looked after by a local authority;\n(c) in a private children’s home of a child who is neither looked after by a local authority nor accommodated in such a home by a voluntary organisation, by a person carrying on the home.\n(2) These Regulations do not apply to the placement of a child, otherwise than by a local authority or voluntary organisation in a school which is a children’s home within the meaning of section 1(6) of the Care Standards Act 2000\n(3) These Regulations do not apply to any placement of a child for adoption.\n(4) These regulations apply in relation to Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c14."
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      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2018/48",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2018"
    },
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "words 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"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2018/48",
      "affecting_title": "The Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2018"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/310/regulation/3",
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  "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."
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