{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-accommodation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-accommodation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/841",
  "legislation_title": "The Secure Accommodation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-accommodation-scotland-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "New regulation 9A in the principal Regulations",
  "text": "After regulation 9 of the principal Regulations there shall be inserted the following new regulation:—\n“Information provided to a children’s hearing by a local authority in relation to the use of secure accommodation\n9A Where a children’s hearing are considering whether to impose a condition under section 58A(3) of the 1968 Act, or to authorise detention in secure accommodation under section 58B(3) or 58E(1) of that Act, as the case may be, a local authority may submit a report (which shall be in writing) to the children’s hearing recommending that the child be placed in a named residential establishment subject to such condition or such authority only if they have complied in respect of that placement with regulation 26(1) of the 1987 Regulations and they are satisfied that it is in the best interests of the child to be subject to such condition or such authority.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 58B(3) was amended by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73), section 26(a) and Schedule 2, paragraph 10; section 58E(1) was amended by section 26(b) of the said 1985 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/841/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:06:53.879561+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."
}