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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-accommodation-scotland-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3255",
  "legislation_title": "The Secure Accommodation (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-accommodation-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Maximum period in secure accommodation under the Act without authority",
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of regulation 8 the maximum period during which a child may be kept under the Act or the 1995 Act in secure accommodation without the authority of a children’s hearing, or, as the case may be, of the sheriff, is an aggregate of 72 hours (whether or not consecutive) in any period of 28 consecutive days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3255/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:36.707900+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."
}