{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-regulations-2002/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3213",
  "legislation_title": "The Residential Family Centres Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the 2000 Act” means the Care Standards Act 2000;\n“the 1989 Act” means the Children Act 1989 ;\n“Chief Inspector” means Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills;\n“child protection enquiry” has the meaning given to it by regulation 12(3)(a);\n...\n“family” means a child and his parent accommodated or to be accommodated together in a residential family centre, and the expression “member of the family” shall be construed accordingly;\n“general medical practitioner” means a medical practitioner whose name is included in the General Practitioner Register kept by the General Medical Council under section 34C of the Medical Act 1983;\n“organisation” means a body corporate or any unincorporated association other than a partnership;\n“parent” has the meaning given to it by section 4(2) of the 2000 Act ;\n“placement plan” means the plan prepared in accordance with regulation 13;\n“placing authority” means, in relation to a family, the local authority or other body that has arranged for the family to be accommodated in a residential family centre;\n“registered manager”, in relation to a residential family centre, means a person who is registered under Part II of the Act as the manager of the residential family centre;\n“registered person”, in relation to a residential family centre, means any person who is the registered provider or the registered manager of the residential family centre;\n“registered provider”, in relation to a residential family centre, means a person who is registered under Part II of the Act as the person carrying on the residential family centre;\n“resident” means any person who is for the time being accommodated in a residential family centre;\n“responsible individual” shall be construed in accordance with regulation 5; and\n“statement of purpose” means the written statement compiled in accordance with regulation 4.\n(2) In these Regulations, save where otherwise provided, references to a child do not include a parent accommodated in a residential family centre who is under the age of 18.\n(3) In these Regulations, references to employing a person include employing a person whether or not for payment, and whether under a contract of service or a contract for services, and allowing a person to work as a volunteer, and references to an employee or to a person being employed shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.4.2007) by The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/603), regs. 1, 12(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.4.2007) by virtue of The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/603), regs. 1, 12(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Residential Family Centres (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/499), regs. 1, 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Section 4(2) of the 2000 Act provides that “parent” in relation to a child, includes any person who is looking after that child."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3213/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:34:58.586263+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."
}