{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-family-centres-regulations-2002/regulation-3.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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Excepted establishments",
  "text": "For the purposes of the 2000 Act, an establishment is excepted from being a residential family centre if—\n(a) it is a hospital within the meaning of section 275 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or a care home;\n(b) it is a hostel or a domestic violence refuge; ...\n(ba) the main purpose of the establishment is to provide accommodation together with other services or facilities for families, and the fact that the parents’ capacity to respond to their children’s needs and to safeguard their welfare is monitored or assessed, is incidental to the main purpose of the establishment; or\n(c) the main purpose of the establishment is to provide accommodation together with other services or facilities to adults, and the fact that those adults may be parents, or may be accompanied by their children, is incidental to the main purpose of the establishment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(a) substituted (1.10.2010) by The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Miscellaneous Consequential Amendments) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1881), arts. 1(1), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(b) revoked (1.4.2013) by The Residential Family Centres (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/499), regs. 1, 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(ba) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Residential Family Centres (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/499), regs. 1, 4(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3213/regulation/3",
    "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."
}