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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/refuges-for-children-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Designation of refuges: local authority establishments and foster households",
  "text": "A local authority shall, before making a designation under regulation 3, satisfy itself that–\n(a) the establishment or, as the case may be, the household is a suitable place in which to provide refuge for a child, and has accommodation and facilities suitable for that purpose;\n(b) the officer in charge of that establishment or as the case may be the person whose household is approved is a suitable person to have responsibility for a child while refuge is being provided for the child at the establishment or household; and\n(c) appropriate services to safeguard a child being provided with refuge are available to the child while taking refuge at that establishment or household.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3259/regulation/4",
    "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."
}