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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/refuges-for-children-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3259",
  "legislation_title": "The Refuges for Children (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/refuges-for-children-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of refuges: local authority establishments and foster households",
  "text": "A local authority may designate for the purpose of providing refuge to children under section 38(1)(a) of the Act–\n(a) a residential establishment controlled or managed by them; and\n(b) a household which is approved by virtue of section 5(3)(b) of the 1968 Act (provision for securing that persons are not placed in any household unless the household has prescribed approval),\nwhere the authority are satisfied as to the matters specified in regulation 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/59",
      "affecting_title": "The Refuges for Children (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3259/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:33.645972+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."
}