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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001/section-71",
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  "legislation": "asp/2001/8",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Amendment of Children Act 1975: maintenance payments to children",
  "text": "In section 50 of the Children Act 1975 (c.72) (which empowers a local authority to make payments for or towards the maintenance of a child under sixteen who is residing with and being cared for, other than as a foster child, by a person other than the parent of the child), for the word “sixteen\" there is substituted “ eighteen ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/8/section/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:15.795839+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."
}