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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/refuges-childrens-homes-and-foster-placements-regulations-1991/regulation-4",
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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",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Withdrawal of a Certificate",
  "text": "–\n(1) The Secretary of State may withdraw a certificate at any time–\n(a) where a person providing a refuge fails to comply with a requirement of regulation 3 of these Regulations;\n(b) where a person providing a refuge in a home fails to comply with any provision of Part II of the Children’s Homes Regulations 1991;\n(c) where a foster parent providing a refuge fails to comply with any provision contained in the agreement relating to him concerning the matters to which paragraphs 3 to 9 of Schedule 2 to the Foster Placement (Children) Regulations 1991 apply and any provision contained in the agreement relating to him concerning the matters to which paragraphs 4 to 8 of Schedule 3 to those Regulations apply or with any provision of regulation 11(4) of those Regulations in respect of an emergency placement under those Regulations, or\n(d) where the person providing a refuge or any person assisting him in that respect has had proceedings instituted against him in relation to, or has been convicted of, any criminal offence.\n(2) Where a certificate is withdrawn the person carrying on the voluntary home or registered children’s home in respect of which, or the foster parent in respect of whom, it was issued shall return it immediately to the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1506."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/910."
    }
  ],
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      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/541",
      "affecting_title": "The Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "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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    {
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      "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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      "affecting": "uksi/2002/546",
      "affecting_title": "Children Act (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2002"
    },
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      "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/4",
    "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."
}