Application of Regulations

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply to placements—

(a) by an authority of any child;

(b) by a voluntary organisation of a child who is not looked after by an authority;

(c) in a registered children’s home of a child who is neither looked after by an authority nor accommodated in such a home by a voluntary organisation, by the person carrying on the home.

(2) These Regulations shall not apply to placements of a child, otherwise than by an authority or voluntary organisation, in a school (as defined in Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1)).

(1)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)