{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-care-order-secure-accommodation-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-care-order-secure-accommodation-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/294",
  "legislation_title": "The Residential Care Order (Secure Accommodation) (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-care-order-secure-accommodation-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 1975 Act” means the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975;\n“appropriate local authority” has the meaning assigned to it by section 413(3) of the 1975 Act;\n“child” has the meaning assigned to it by section 462 of the 1975 Act;\n“managers” means\n(a) in the case of a voluntary organisation, the management committee to whom powers are delegated within the organisation for management of the residential establishment providing secure accommodation;\n(b) in the case of a local authority, those officers having delegated powers under section 2 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 as read with section 56 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973for the management of the residential establishment providing secure accommodation;\n“residential establishment” has the meaning assigned to it by section 94(1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968;\n“secure accommodation” means accommodation provided in a residential establishment for the purpose of restricting the liberty of children.\n(2) In these Regulations any reference to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 65"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 49"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1988/1092",
      "affecting_title": "The Residential Care Order (Secure Accommodation) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/294/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:11:19.683773+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."
}