{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-with-parents-etc-regulations-1991/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-with-parents-etc-regulations-1991/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/893",
  "legislation_title": "The Placement of Children with Parents etc Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/placement-of-children-with-parents-etc-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Application of Regulations to short-term placements",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a series of short-term placements withthe same person where the following conditions aresatisfied—\n(a) all the placements occur within a period which does not exceed oneyear;\n(b) no single placement is for a duration of more than four weeks; and\n(c) the total duration of the placements does not exceed 90 days.\n(2) Any series of short-term placements to which this regulation appliesmay be treated as a single placement for the purpose of theseRegulations.\n(3) Regulation 9(1)(b) shall apply in relation to short-term placementsto which this regulation applies as if for paragraphs (1)(b)(i) to (iii)of that regulation there were substituted—\n“(i) during the first of the series of short-term placements towhich this regulation applies, and\n(ii) on one other occasion while the child is in fact placed duringthe series of short- term placements.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2015",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Short-term Placements)(Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/2015",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Short-term Placements)(Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/893/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:11.827180+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."
}