{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-176",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014/section-176.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2014/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014",
  "path": "section/176",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "176",
  "heading": "Representations relating to former looked after children etc",
  "text": "(1) A local authority must establish a procedure for considering representations (including complaints) made to it by persons to whom subsection (2) applies about the discharge of its functions under Parts 3 to 7 in relation to those persons.\n(2) This subsection applies to—\n(a) category 2 young persons;\n(b) category 3 young persons;\n(c) category 4 young persons;\n(d) category 5 young persons;\n(e) category 6 young persons;\n(f) persons under the age of 25 who, if they were under the age of 21, would be—\n(i) category 5 young persons, or\n(ii) category 6 young persons falling within that category by virtue of section 104(3)(a).\n(3) Regulations may impose—\n(a) requirements in relation to the procedure that must be established;\n(b) time limits on the making of representations to which the procedure applies.\n(4) A local authority must—\n(a) give publicity to the procedure which it establishes for the purposes of this section;\n(b) comply with any requirements imposed under subsection (3)(a) in considering representations to which this section applies.\n(5) In this section “category 2 young person”, “category 3 young person”, “category 4 young person”, “category 5 young person” and “category 6 young person” have the meanings given by section 104.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 176 in force at 6.4.2016 by S.I. 2016/412, art. 2 (with art. 4, Schs. 1, 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2014/4/section/176",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:25.857129+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."
}