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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/refuges-childrens-homes-and-foster-placements-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1507",
  "legislation_title": "The Refuges (Children’s Homes and Foster Placements) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/refuges-childrens-homes-and-foster-placements-regulations-1991",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "–\n(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires–\n“certificate” means a certificate issued under section 51 (refuges for children at risk);\n“designated officer” means a police officer for the time being designated for the purpose of these Regulations by the chief officer for the police area within which–\n(a) a home which is provided as a refuge in pursuance of section 51(1) is situated, or\n(b) a foster parent who provides a refuge in pursuance of section 51(2) lives;\n“home” means a registered children’s home or voluntary home;\n“responsible person” in relation to a child means–\n(a) except where a person has care of the child as mentioned in paragraph (b) below–\n(i) a parent of his,\n(ii) a person who is not a parent of his, but who has parental responsibility for him, and\n(iii) any person who for the time being has care of him not being a person providing a refuge;\n(b) any person who for the time being has care of the child by virtue of a care order, emergency protection order or section 46 (removal and accommodation of children by police in cases of emergency) as the case may be.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered section is a reference to the section in the Children Act 1989 bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "affecting": "uksi/2013/706",
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      "affecting": "wsi/2016/216",
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    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "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 substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/2935",
      "affecting_title": "The Children Act 1989 and the Care Standards Act 2000 (Miscellaneous Regulations) (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/546",
      "affecting_title": "Children Act (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2002"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1507/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:42:04.366029+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."
}