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.