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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/refuges-for-children-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
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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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Approval of other residential establishments as refuges",
  "text": "A local authority shall, before giving approval under regulation 5, satisfy itself that–\n(a) the establishment or the specified part of it is a suitable place in which to provide refuge for a child, and has accommodation and facilities suitable for that purpose;\n(b) the person carrying on the establishment (or the specified part of the establishment) or, where that person is not the manager of the establishment, the manager, is a suitable person to have responsibility for a child while refuge is being provided for the child at the establishment; and\n(c) appropriate services to safeguard the child being provided with refuge are available to the child while taking refuge in the establishment or the specified part of it.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}