{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-detained-persons-regulations-2015/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-detained-persons-regulations-2015/regulation-32.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Educational Needs and Disability (Detained Persons) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-educational-needs-and-disability-detained-persons-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Where a young person lacks capacity",
  "text": "(1) If the appropriate person is a young person and the young person lacks capacity at the relevant time, references in—\n(a) Part 3 of the Act, and\n(b) these Regulations\nto the appropriate person are to be read as references to the alternative person.\n(2) If the detained person is a young person and the young person lacks capacity at the relevant time—\n(a) references to a detained person in the regulations listed in Part 1 of the Schedule are to be read as references to both the detained person and the alternative person, and\n(b) references to a detained person in the regulation listed in Part 2 of the Schedule are to be read as references to the alternative person instead of the detained person.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation, “the alternative person” means—\n(a) a representative of the detained person;\n(b) the detained person's parent, where the detained person does not have a representative;\n(c) a representative of the detained person's parent, where the detained person's parent also lacks capacity at the relevant time and the young person does not have a representative.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/62/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:49.152451+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."
}