Amendment of the Principal Regulations2
1
In regulation 2(1) of the Principal Regulations, within the definition of “placing authority”, for (a) and (b) there shall be substituted—
a
in the case of a child where the arrangements for providing the accommodation are made by an HSC3 trust or a body exercising equivalent functions outside Northern Ireland, that HSC trust or body;
b
in the case of a child where the arrangements for providing the accommodation are not made by an HSC trust or a body exercising equivalent functions outside Northern Ireland—
i
if the arrangements are made by a voluntary organisation, that voluntary organisation;
ii
in any other case, the child’s parent;
2
In regulation 33(2) of the Principal Regulations, the words “children accommodated in the home and their parents or” shall be omitted.