{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representations-procedure-children-regulations-1991/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representations-procedure-children-regulations-1991/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/894",
  "legislation_title": "Representations Procedure (Children) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/representations-procedure-children-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Special cases including application to representations by fosterparents",
  "text": "(1) Where representations would fall to be considered by more than onelocal authority, they shall be considered by the authority which islooking after the child or by the authority within whose area the childis ordinarily resident where no authority has that responsibility.\n(2) The provisions of Parts I and III of, and of regulation 12(1) of,these Regulations, shall apply to the consideration by a local authorityof any representations (including any complaint) made to them by anyperson exempted or seeking to be exempted under paragraph 4 of Schedule7 to the Act (foster parents: limits on numbers of foster children)about the discharge of their functions under that paragraph asif—\n(a) for the definition in regulation 2(1) of“complainant” there were substituted:“a person exempted or seeking to be exempted under paragraph 4 ofSchedule 7 to the Act making any representations;”\n(b) for the definition in regulation 2(1) of“representations” there were substituted:“representations referred to in paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 to the Act.”;\n(c) in regulation 4(1) the words“except from a person to whom section 26(3)(e) may apply” were omitted;\n(d) regulation 4(4) and (5) were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/2033",
      "affecting_title": "The Children (Representations, Placements and Reviews) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/894/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:46:11.093061+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."
}