{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-holiday-schemes-for-disabled-children-england-regulations-2013/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-holiday-schemes-for-disabled-children-england-regulations-2013/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1394",
  "legislation_title": "The Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/residential-holiday-schemes-for-disabled-children-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Behaviour management and discipline",
  "text": "(1) No measure which is—\n(a) excessive;\n(b) unreasonable; or\n(c) of a type listed in paragraph (2),\nmay be used for the control or discipline of children accommodated by the scheme.\n(2) The measures are—\n(a) corporal punishment;\n(b) a punishment involving the consumption or deprivation of food or drink;\n(c) a restriction, other than one imposed by a court, on—\n(i) a child’s contact with parents, relatives or friends;\n(ii) a visit to the child by the child’s parents, relatives or friends; or\n(iii) a child’s access to a telephone helpline providing counselling for children;\n(d) a requirement that a child wears distinctive or inappropriate clothes;\n(e) the use or withholding of medication or medical or dental treatment;\n(f) the intentional deprivation of sleep;\n(g) the imposition of a financial penalty, other than a requirement for the payment of a reasonable sum (which may be by instalments) by way of reparation;\n(h) an intimate physical examination of the child;\n(i) the withholding of any aids or equipment needed by a disabled child;\n(j) a measure which involves—\n(i) a child in the imposition of a measure against another child; or\n(ii) the punishment of a group of children for the behaviour of an individual child.\n(3) Nothing in this regulation prohibits—\n(a) the taking of action by, or in accordance with the instructions of—\n(i) a registered medical practitioner; or\n(ii) a registered dental practitioner,\nwhich is necessary to protect the child’s health;\n(b) the taking of any necessary action to prevent injury to any person or serious damage to property; or\n(c) the imposition of a requirement that a child wears distinctive clothing for sporting purposes, or for purposes connected with the child’s education or with any organisation whose members customarily wear uniform in connection with its activities.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in force at 1.7.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1394/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:51:49.978399+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."
}