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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-establishments-child-care-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3256",
  "legislation_title": "The Residential Establishments – Child Care (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-establishments-child-care-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Number of children who may be accommodated",
  "text": "Subject to section 62(5) of the Act the managers shall, as they consider appropriate, determine the total number of children who may normally be resident in each residential establishment they provide.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 62(5) was substituted by section 3 of the Registered Establishments (Scotland) Act 1987."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3256/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:35.957914+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."
}